And Jesus answering said unto them, The children of this world marry, and are given in marriage:
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Gill's Exposition
For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living,.... See Gill on Mat 22:32.
for all live unto him. The Persic version, reads, "all these live unto him"; namely, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; for…
Adam Clarke
The children of this world - Men and women in their present state of mortality and probation; procreation being necessary to restore the waste made by death, and to keep up the population of the…
This discourse with the Sadducees we had before, just as it is here, only that the description Christ gives of the future state is somewhat more full and large here. Observe here,
I. In every age…
Cambridge Bible
neither can they die any more Rather, for neither, &c. There is no marriage and no more birth. "There shall be no more death," Rev 21:4. "The dead shall be raised incorruptible," 1Co 15:52.
equal unto…
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