NOTES for Luk 20:27-40
27 Then came to him certain of the Sadducees, which deny that there is any resurrection; and they asked him, |
28 Saying, Master, Moses wrote unto us, If any man's brother die, having a wife, and he die without children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother. |
29 There were therefore seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and died without children. |
30 And the second took her to wife, and he died childless. |
31 And the third took her; and in like manner the seven also: and they left no children, and died. |
32 Last of all the woman died also. |
33 Therefore in the resurrection whose wife of them is she? for seven had her to wife. |
34 And Jesus answering said unto them, The children of this world marry, and are given in marriage: |
35 But they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage: |
36 Neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection. |
37 Now that the dead are raised, even Moses shewed at the bush, when he calleth the Lord the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. |
38 For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living: for all live unto him. |
39 Then certain of the scribes answering said, Master, thou hast well said. |
40 And after that they durst not ask him any question at all. |
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People come to Jesus who denied the resurrection, believing that this earthly existence exhausts a person's whole life. Their attachment to earthly existence is shown by the very question they ask Him. It is a question filled with truly earthly particulars and details. Christ does not give a direct answer, but offers a completely new angle from which to consider the problem. He calls His listeners to take a position beyond time, the position of eternity. From precisely this point one can see the most important thing, which turns out not to be the clarification of family relationships in eternal life, but the fact that "God is not the God of the dead, but of the living."
Sometimes we ask the Lord questions and do not receive direct answers; our difficulties are not resolved through prayer, and the circumstances of life do not change from year to year. But despite this, we can sense peace and the presence of God within all this irresolution and complexity, if we learn even a little to see our life in the divine dimension.
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