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Luke 20:37 Explained in Context
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Verse 37. 37Now 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.
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Quick Meaning
Luke 20:37 contributes the following verse-specific detail to “Jesus Defends Resurrection beyond Present Marriage Structures” at Luke 20:37: “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”.
Read It With
- Luke 20:27–20:40
Read Luke 20:37 with 20:27–20:40. In isolation, this contribution—contributes the following verse-specific detail to “Jesus Defends Resurrection beyond Present Marriage Structures” at Luke 20:37: “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”—can be detached from its speaker, audience, scene or teaching sequence, and outcome. The complete unit establishes: Sadducees pose a seven-brother levirate case; Jesus distinguishes the coming age, says the resurrected do not die or marry in the same way, and argues from Moses that God is God of the living.
What Remains True
Luke 20:37 contributes the following verse-specific detail to “Jesus Defends Resurrection beyond Present Marriage Structures” at Luke 20:37: “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”. Read inside Luke 20:27–20:40, this contribution supports the unit's proportionate truth: Sadducees pose a seven-brother levirate case; Jesus distinguishes the coming age, says the resurrected do not die or marry in the same way, and argues from Moses that God is God of the living. Its use remains accountable to affected people and the unit's explicit boundary.
How It Can Shape Life
- Luke 20:37 contributes the following verse-specific detail to “Jesus Defends Resurrection beyond Present Marriage Structures” at Luke 20:37: “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”. Its faithful response is proportionate to that role: Receive resurrection hope without erasing earthly grief, embodied life, or people's present relationships; never use the debate to mock Jewish interpreters or settle every afterlife question.
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and coverage.
Exact location: Luke 20:27–20:40, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗Greek textual evidence
The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition
Michael W. Holmes, editor; Society of Biblical Literature and Logos
Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software, 2010
Supports: Greek wording and sentence relations; the edition is not treated as a complete apparatus.
Exact location: Faithlife SBLGNT official repository, data/sblgnt/text/Luke.txt, 20:27–20:40
Open the Luke Greek text file ↗open translation and translator notes
NET Bible First Edition Notes: Luke
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2006
Supports: Verse-level translation, syntax, KJV-language clarification, historical notes, Synoptic parallels, and textual alternatives.
Exact location: NET Bible First Edition Luke PDF, exact tn/tc/sn entries attached to Luke 20:27–20:40
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