He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living: ye therefore do greatly err.
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Gill's Exposition
Jesus answered him, the first of all the commandments is,.... Christ replied at once, without taking any time to consider of it, that the chief and principal of all the commands of the law, and what…
See this passage fully explained in the notes at Mat 22:23-33. Mar 12:25 Are as the angels - That is, as the angels in respect to connections and relations. What those connections and relations may be…
Adam Clarke
But the God of the living - Θεος, God, is left out by ABCDKL, and in more than forty others, Syriac, one Arabic, one Persic, Coptic, Armenian, Gothic, Saxon, Vulgate, Itala, and Origen. Griesbach has…
The Sadducees, who were the deists of that age, here attack our Lord Jesus, it should seem, not as the scribes, and Pharisees, and chief-priests, with any malicious design upon his person; they were…
Cambridge Bible
He is not the God of the dead Our Lord thus taught them that the words implied far more than that God was the God, in Whom Abraham and the patriarchs trusted and worshipped.
but the God of the living…
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