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30 For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but aare like angels of God in heaven.  
31 But concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was spoken to you by God, saying,
32 a‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.”  
33 And when the multitudes heard this, athey were astonished at His teaching.  

The Scribes: Which Is the First Commandment of All?

34 aBut when the Pharisees heard that He had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together.  
35 Then one of them, aa lawyer, asked Him a question, testing Him, and saying,  
36 “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?”
37 Jesus said to him, a“‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’  
38 This is the first and great commandment.
39 And the second is like it: a‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’  
40 aOn these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.”  

Jesus: How Can David Call His Descendant Lord?

41 aWhile the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them,  
42 saying, “What do you think about the Christ? Whose Son is He?” They said to Him, “The aSon of David.”  
43 He said to them, “How then does David in the Spirit call Him ‘Lord,’ saying:
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Matthew 22:32

I am the God of Abraham - The argument runs thus: God is not the God of the dead, but of the living: (for that expression, Thy God, implies both benefit from God to man, and duty from man to God) but he is the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: therefore, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are not dead, but living. Therefore, the soul does not die with the body. So indeed the Sadducees supposed, and it was on this ground that they denied the resurrection. Exodus 3:6.




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