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Luke 20:38

Luke 20:38
For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living: for all live unto him.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

Until I make thine enemies thy footstool. Which words are a continuation of the citation out of the above Psalm Psa 110:1; and for the application of these words, with the preceding, to the Messiah;…

Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

Adam Clarke

All live unto him - There is a remarkable passage in Josephus's account of the Maccabees, chap. xvi., which proves that the best informed Jews believed that the souls of righteous men were in the…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Luke 20:27-38

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…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

he is not a God of the dead, but of the living Rather, of dead beings, but of living beings. The Pharisees had endeavoured to draw proofs of immortality from the Law, i.e. from Num 15:31. In later…