Matthew 22:31-33
New English Translation
31 Now as for the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was spoken to you by God,[a] 32 ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’?[b] He is not the God of the dead but of the living!”[c] 33 When the crowds heard this, they were amazed at his teaching.
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- Matthew 22:31 tn Grk “spoken to you by God, saying.” The participle λέγοντος (legontos) is redundant here in contemporary English and has not been translated.
- Matthew 22:32 sn A quotation from Exod 3:6.
- Matthew 22:32 sn He is not God of the dead but of the living. Jesus’ point was that if God could identify himself as God of the three old patriarchs, then they must still be alive when God spoke to Moses; and so they must be raised.
Matthew 22:31-33
New International Version
31 But about the resurrection of the dead—have you not read what God said to you, 32 ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’[a]?(A) He is not the God of the dead but of the living.”
33 When the crowds heard this, they were astonished at his teaching.(B)
Footnotes
- Matthew 22:32 Exodus 3:6
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