Therefore in the resurrection whose wife of them will she be? For the seven had her as a wife.”
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Therefore in the resurrection whose wife of them will she be? For the seven had her as a wife.”
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Passages linked to Luke 20:33 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Matthew 22:24-28 saying, “Teacher, Moses said, ‘If a man dies, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up offspring for his brother.’ Now there were with us seven brothers. The first married and died, and having no offspring left his wife to his brother. In the same way, the second also, and the third, to the seventh. After them all, the woman died. In the resurrection therefore, whose wife will she be of the seven? For they all had her.”
- Mark 12:19-23 “Teacher, Moses wrote to us, ‘If a man’s brother dies, and leaves a wife behind him, and leaves no children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up offspring for his brother.’ There were seven brothers. The first took a wife, and dying left no offspring. The second took her, and died, leaving no children behind him. The third likewise; and the seven took her and left no children. Last of all the woman also died. In the resurrection, when they rise, whose wife will she be of them? For the seven had her as a wife.”
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Now that the dead are raised,.... Or that there…
Now that the dead are raised,.... Or that there will be a resurrection of the dead, this is a proof of it:
even Moses showed at the bush: when the Lord appeared to him out of it, and he saw it burning with fire, and not consumed; when the Lord called to him out of it by the following name, as he has recorded it in Exo 3:6. Hence it is said,
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when he calleth the Lord the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob; for though the Lord called himself so, yet Moses likewise calls him by these names, when he gives an account of this affair, and when he went from him to the children Israel; See Gill on Mat 22:32.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 33. accounted worthy] Comp. Luk_21:36; Rev_3:4; 2Th_1:5. Sane magna…
33. accounted worthy] Comp. Luk_21:36; Rev_3:4; 2Th_1:5. Sane magna dignatio. Bengel.
to obtain that world] i.e. the genuine inheritors of the future aeon beyond the grave, Luk_14:14; Php_3:11. The answer of Jesus is not only full of tolerant condescension, but also of a divine wisdom which at once dwarfs into insignificance the most vaunted insight of the Rabbinic Hillels and Shammais. It is further most important, as being one of the very few passages which give us a clear glimpse into the actual conditions of future blessedness. These Sadducees erred because, in their ignorance of the Scriptures and the power of God (Mar_12:24), they were imagining a kingdom which could be inherited by “flesh and blood.”
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 20:33 whose wife will she be in the resurrection?…
20:33 whose wife will she be in the resurrection? The Sadducees used this hypothetical situation in an attempt to show that the idea of resurrection was absurd. This was probably a stock polemic that the Sadducees used in debating the Pharisees.
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