Luke 20:37-38

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 20:37-38

Now that the dead are raised, even Moses showed at the bush. You Sadducees, in your own arbitrary fashion, set aside the authority of the prophets and all sacred books save the Pentateuch; well, I will argue with you on your own, comparatively speaking, narrow ground—the books of Moses. Even he, Moses, is singularly clear and definite in his teaching on this point of the resurrection, though you pretend he is not. You are acquainted with the well-known section in Exodus termed 'the Bush :'... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Luke 20:20-38

See this explained in the Matthew 22:15-33 notes, and Mark 12:13-27 notes. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Luke 20:27-40

Luke 20:27-40. Then came to him certain of the Sadducees These verses are explained at large, on Matthew 22:23-33, and Mark 12:18-26. The children of this world The inhabitants of earth; marry and are given in marriage As being all subject to the law of mortality, so that the species is in need of being continually repaired. But they which obtain that world The world which holy souls enter into at death; namely, paradise; and the resurrection from the dead It must be observed, our... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Luke 20:27-40

126. Marriage and the resurrection (Matthew 22:23-33; Mark 12:18-27; Luke 20:27-40)Next a group of Sadducees came to Jesus with a question. According to the law of Moses, if a man died childless, his brother was to have a temporary marital relationship with the widow for the purpose of producing an heir (Deuteronomy 25:5-6). The question put by the Sadducees concerned an unlikely situation where a widow would meet seven husbands, all brothers, in the resurrection. Since Sadducees did not... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Luke 20:37

Now = But. the dead = corpses. See App-139 . are raised Greek. egeiro. App-178 . Moses shewed . Moses cited because his testimony was in question (Luke 20:28 ). shewed = disclosed. Greek. menuo, originally to disclose something before unknown. Occurs only here, John 11:57 . Act 23:30 . 1 Corinthians 10:28 . at the bush = [in the Scripture) on (Greek. epi. App-104 .) Referring to one of the Sections known by that name. See on 2 Samuel 1:18 , "the Bow"; Ezek. 1, "the Chariot". Compare... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Luke 20:38

the dead = dead [people], as in Luke 20:35 . App-139 . the living = living [people]. live . In resurrection. See note on Matthew 9:8 . unto = by. The Dative of the Agent, as in Luke 5:21 , "by them"; 2 Corinthians 12:20 , "by you"; Romans 10:20 , "of (= by) them"; 2 Peter 3:14 , "of (= by) Him"; 1 Timothy 3:16 , "of (= by) angels". read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Luke 20:37

Luke 20:37. Moses shewed at the bush,— Moses shewed, where he speaks of the Lord in the bush being the God of Abraham, &c. read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Luke 20:38

Luke 20:38. For all live unto him.— It is evident that γαρ, for, must here have the force of an illative particle, and may be rendered therefore, or so that; for what it introduces is plainly the main proposition to be proved, and not an argument for what immediately went before. In this connection the consequence is apparently just: for, as all the faithful saints of God are the children of Abraham, and the divine promise of being a God to him and his seed is entailed upon such, it would prove... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Luke 20:37

37, 38. even Moses—whom they had just quoted to entangle Him. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Luke 20:38

38. not . . . of the dead, . . . for all, c.—To God, no human being is dead, or ever will be but all sustain an abiding conscious relation to Him. But the "all" here meant "those who shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world." These sustain a gracious covenant relation to God, which cannot be dissolved. In this sense our Lord affirms that for Moses to call the Lord the "God" of His patriarchal servants if at that moment they had no existence, would be unworthy of Him. He "would be ashamed... read more

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