Mark 12:27

He is not a God of, dead, men, but of, living. Greatly, are ye deceiving yourselves.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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, as touching the dead, that they, do rise,—Have ye not read in the book of Moses, at the Bush, how God spake unto him, saying—I [am] the God of Abraham, and God of Isaac, and God of Jacob:—

28And one of the Scribes, coming near, hearing them discussing, seeing that, well, he had answered them, began to question him—Which is the chief commandment of all?

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Cross References

Proverbs 19:27Cease, my son, to hear instruction that would cause thee to wander from the sayings of knowledge.

Romans 4:17Even as it is written—Father of many nations, have I appointed thee: before him whom he believed—God, who causeth the dead to live, and calleth the things that are not as things that are:—

Hebrews 3:10Wherefore I was sore vexed with this generation, and said, Always err they in their heart;—howbeit, they, learned not 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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