Matthew 22:32

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:

Commentaries:

Adam Clarke

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Matthew 22:32

I am the God of Abraham - Let it be observed, that Abraham was dead upwards of 300 years before these words were spoken to Moses: yet still God calls himself the God of Abraham, etc. Now Christ properly observes that God is not the God of the dead, (that word being equal, in the sense of the Sadducees, to an eternal annihilation), but of the living; it therefore follows that, if he be the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, these are not dead, but alive; alive with God, though they had ceased, for some hundreds of years, to exist among mortals. We may see, from this, that our Lord combats and confutes another opinion of the Sadducees, viz. that there is neither angel nor spirit; by showing that the soul is not only immortal, but lives with God, even while the body is detained in the dust of the earth, which body is afterwards to be raised to life, and united with its soul by the miraculous power of God, of which power they showed themselves to be ignorant when they denied the possibility of a resurrection.

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