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Matthew 22:32-34
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Matthew 22:32-34
New English Translation
32 ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’?[a] He is not the God of the dead but of the living!”[b] 33 When the crowds heard this, they were amazed at his teaching.
The Greatest Commandment
34 Now when the Pharisees[c] heard that he had silenced the Sadducees,[d] they assembled together.[e]
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- Matthew 22:32 sn A quotation from Exod 3:6.
- Matthew 22:32 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.
- Matthew 22:34 sn See the note on Pharisees in 3:7.
- Matthew 22:34 sn See the note on Sadducees in 3:7.
- Matthew 22:34 tn Grk “for the same.” That is, for the same purpose that the Sadducees had of testing Jesus.
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