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Luke 20:37-39
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Luke 20:37-39
New English Translation
37 But even Moses revealed that the dead are raised[a] in the passage about the bush,[b] where he calls the Lord the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.[c] 38 Now he is not God of the dead, but of the living,[d] for all live before him.”[e] 39 Then[f] some of the experts in the law[g] answered, “Teacher, you have spoken well!”[h]
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- Luke 20:37 tn Grk “But that the dead are raised even Moses revealed.”
- Luke 20:37 sn See Exod 3:6. Jesus used a common form of rabbinic citation here to refer to the passage in question.
- Luke 20:37 sn A quotation from Exod 3:6.
- Luke 20:38 sn He is not God of the dead but of the living. Jesus’ point was that if God could identify himself as God of the three old patriarchs, then they must still be alive when God spoke to Moses; and so they must be raised.
- Luke 20:38 tn On this syntax, see BDF §192. The point is that all live “to” God or “before” God.
- Luke 20:39 tn Here δέ (de) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.
- Luke 20:39 tn Or “some of the scribes.” See the note on the phrase “experts in the law” in 5:21.
- Luke 20:39 sn Teacher, you have spoken well! The scribes, being Pharisees, were happy for the defense of resurrection and angels, which they (unlike the Sadducees) believed in.
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