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32 ‘I am the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob’? So God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.”[a]

33 The crowds were profoundly impressed by his answers— 34-35 but not the Pharisees! When they heard that he had routed the Sadducees with his reply, they thought up a fresh question of their own to ask him. One of them, a lawyer, spoke up:

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  1. Matthew 22:32 of the living, i.e., if Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, long dead, were not alive in the presence of God, then God would have said, “I was the God of Abraham, etc.”

32 ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’[a]?(A) He is not the God of the dead but of the living.”

33 When the crowds heard this, they were astonished at his teaching.(B)

The Greatest Commandment(C)

34 Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees,(D) the Pharisees got together.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 22:32 Exodus 3:6