Luke 20:34-38

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 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 there have been men of corrupt minds, that have endeavoured to subvert the fundamental principles of revealed religion. As there are deists now, who call themselves free-thinkers, but are really false-thinkers; so there were Sadducees in our Saviour's time, who bantered the doctrine of the... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Luke 20:27-40

20:27-40 Some of the Sadducees, who say that there is no resurrection, came to Jesus and asked him, "Teacher, Moses wrote to us that, if a man's married brother dies without leaving any children, his brother must take his wife and raise up descendants for his brother. Now there were seven brothers. The first took a wife and died childless. The second and the third also took her; and in the same way the whole seven left no children and died. Later the wife died, too. Whose wife will she be at... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 20:34

And Jesus answering, said unto them ,.... After he had observed that their error arose from ignorance of the Scriptures, and the power of God: the children of this world marry, and are given in marriage that is, such who live in this world, in the present mortal and imperfect state, being mortal men, and die, and leave their estates and possessions: these marry, and have wives given them in marriage; and it is very right, and fit, that so it should be, in order to keep up a succession of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 20:35

But they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world ,.... The world to come, eternal life and happiness; not by their own works and merits, but through the blood, sacrifice, and righteousness of the Messiah; and the resurrection from the dead ; that is, the first resurrection, the resurrection unto life, which only the dead in Christ will enjoy; otherwise all will be raised: but some to the resurrection of damnation: these neither marry, nor are given in marriage ; there... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 20:36

Neither can they die any more ,.... Therefore there will be no need of marrying to procreate children, to keep up a succession of men, any more than there is among the angels: for they are equal unto the angels ; in spirituality, purity and immortality; See Gill on Matthew 22:30 . and are the children of God : as they are now by adopting grace; but, as yet, it does not appear as it will then, what they are and will be: being the children of the resurrection ; as Christ was... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 20:37

Now that the dead are raised ,.... Or that there will be a resurrection of the dead, this is a proof of it: even Moses showed at the bush : when the Lord appeared to him out of it, and he saw it burning with fire, and not consumed; when the Lord called to him out of it by the following name, as he has recorded it in Exodus 3:6 . Hence it is said, when he calleth the Lord the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob ; for though the Lord called himself so, yet... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 20:38

For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living ,.... See Gill on Matthew 22:32 . for all live unto him . The Persic version, reads, "all these live unto him"; namely, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; for though they are dead to men, they are not to God; their souls live with him, and their bodies will be raised by him: he reckons of them, as if they were now alive, for he quickens the dead, and calls things that are not, as though they were; and this is the case of all the saints that... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 20:34

The children of this world - Men and women in their present state of mortality and probation; procreation being necessary to restore the waste made by death, and to keep up the population of the earth. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 20:36

Equal unto the angels - Who neither marry nor die. See the Jewish testimonies to the resurrection of the human body quoted at length on 1 Corinthians 15:42 ; (note). read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 20:38

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 presence of God in a state of happiness. "They who lose their lives for the sake of God, Live unto God, as do Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and the rest of the patriarchs." And one not less remarkable in Shemoth Rabba, fol. 159. "Rabbi Abbin saith, The Lord said unto Moses, Find me out ten righteous... read more

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