Mark 12:27

God is not the God of the dead, but of the living. You are in grave error."

Montgomery New Testament

In The King James Version

He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living: ye therefore do greatly err.

In Context

26But in regard to the rising again of the dead, have you never read in the Book of Moses, in the passage about the Bush, how God spoke to him, saying, "I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?

28Just then up came one of the Scribes who had heard them arguing, and realized that Jesus had answered them admirably. "What commandment," he asked, "is the first of all?"

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Cross References

Romans 4:17as it is written, I have made you a father of many nations.

Hebrews 3:10For this reason I was sore displeased with that generation, And said, "They are always wandering in their hearts; They have never learned my ways";

Matthew Henry on Mark 12:19-28

The Question of the Sadducees. 18 Then come unto him the Sadducees, which say there is no resurrection; and they asked him, saying, 19 Master, Moses wrote unto us, If a man's brother die, and leave his wife behind him, and leave no children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother. 20 Now there were seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and dying left no seed. 21 And the second took her, and died, neither left he any seed: and the third likewise. 22 And the seven had her, and… Read the whole commentary →

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