27He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living: ye therefore do greatly err.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living.
And Jesus answering said unto them, Do ye not therefore err, because ye know not the scriptures, neither the power of God?
(As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.
Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.
These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 18-27)The Sadducees, who were the deists of that age, here attack our Lord Jesus, it should seem, not as the scribes, and Pharisees, and chief-priests, with any malicious design upon his person; they were not bigots and persecutors, but sceptics and infidels, and their design was upon his doctrine, to hinder the spreading of that: they denied that there was any resurrection, and world of spirits, any st…
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