35 but those who are considered worthy to attain to that age and to the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage, 36 for they are not even able to die any longer, because they are like the angels and are sons of God, because they[a] are sons of the resurrection. 37 But that the dead are raised, even Moses revealed in the passage about[b] the bush, when he calls the Lord the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 20:36 Here “because” is supplied as a component of the participle (“are”) which is understood as causal
  2. Luke 20:37 The words “the passage about” are not in the Greek text but are implied; here a common form of rabbinic citation is being used to refer to an Old Testament passage

35 But those who are considered worthy of taking part in the age to come(A) and in the resurrection from the dead will neither marry nor be given in marriage, 36 and they can no longer die; for they are like the angels. They are God’s children,(B) since they are children of the resurrection. 37 But in the account of the burning bush, even Moses showed that the dead rise, for he calls the Lord ‘the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’[a](C)

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 20:37 Exodus 3:6