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34-35 Jesus replied, “Marriage is for people here on earth, but when those who are counted worthy of being raised from the dead get to heaven, they do not marry. 36 And they never die again; in these respects they are like angels, and are sons of God, for they are raised up in new life from the dead.

37-38 “But as to your real question—whether or not there is a resurrection—why, even the writings of Moses himself prove this. For when he describes how God appeared to him in the burning bush, he speaks of God as ‘the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’ To say that the Lord is some person’s God[a] means that person is alive, not dead! So from God’s point of view, all men are living.”

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 20:37 that the Lord is some person’s God. Otherwise the statement would be, “that he had been that person’s God.”

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