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Luke 20:35-37
New English Translation
Luke 20:35-37
New English Translation
35 But those who are regarded as worthy to share in[a] that age and in the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage.[b] 36 In fact, they can no longer die, because they are equal to angels[c] and are sons of God, since they are[d] sons[e] of the resurrection. 37 But even Moses revealed that the dead are raised[f] in the passage about the bush,[g] where he calls the Lord the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.[h]
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- Luke 20:35 tn Grk “to attain to.”
- Luke 20:35 sn Life in the age to come is different than life here (they neither marry nor are given in marriage). This means Jesus’ questioners had made a false assumption that life was the same both now and in the age to come.
- Luke 20:36 sn Angels do not die, nor do they eat according to Jewish tradition (1 En. 15:6; 51:4; Wis 5:5; 2 Bar. 51:10; 1QH 3.21-23).
- Luke 20:36 tn Grk “sons of God, being.” The participle ὄντες (ontes) has been translated as a causal adverbial participle here.
- Luke 20:36 tn Or “people.” The noun υἱός (huios) followed by the genitive of class or kind (“sons of…”) denotes a person of a class or kind, specified by the following genitive construction. This Semitic idiom is frequent in the NT (L&N 9.4).
- 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 20:35-37
New International Version
Luke 20:35-37
New International Version
35 But those who are considered worthy of taking part in the age to come(A) and in the resurrection from the dead will neither marry nor be given in marriage, 36 and they can no longer die; for they are like the angels. They are God’s children,(B) since they are children of the resurrection. 37 But in the account of the burning bush, even Moses showed that the dead rise, for he calls the Lord ‘the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’[a](C)
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- Luke 20:37 Exodus 3:6
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