Luke 20:37 “Even Moses demonstrates that the dead are raised, in the passage about…”

Luke 20:37

Even Moses demonstrates that the dead are raised, in the passage about the burning bush. For he calls the Lord ‘the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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.

World English Bible

But that the dead are raised, even Moses showed at the bush, when he called the Lord ‘The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’

American Standard Version

But that the dead are raised, even Moses showed, in the place concerning the Bush, when he calleth the Lord the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.

Geneva Bible 1599

And that the dead shall rise againe, euen Moses shewed it besides the bush, when he said, The Lord is the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Iacob.

Darby Translation

But that the dead rise, even Moses shewed in [the section of] the bush, when he called [the] Lord the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob;

Young's Literal Translation

'And that the dead are raised, even Moses shewed at the Bush, since he doth call the Lord, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob;

Bible in Basic English

But even Moses made it clear that the dead come back to life, saying, in the story of the burning thorn-tree, The Lord, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.

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Cross references

“even”

Exodus 3:2–6 Acts 7:30–32 Deuteronomy 33:16

Exodus 3:2–6 · BSB

There the angel of the LORD appeared to him in a blazing fire from within a bush. Moses saw the bush ablaze with fire, but it was not consumed.

Acts 7:30–32 · BSB

After forty years had passed, an angel appeared to Moses in the flames of a burning bush in the desert near Mount Sinai.

Deuteronomy 33:16 · BSB

with the choice gifts of the land and everything in it, and with the favor of Him who dwelt in the burning bush. May these rest on the head of Joseph and crown the brow of the prince of his brothers.

“when”

Genesis 17:7 Genesis 28:13 Genesis 28:21 Genesis 32:9 Matthew 22:3–33 Mark 12:26

Genesis 17:7 · BSB

I will establish My covenant as an everlasting covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.

Genesis 28:13 · BSB

And there at the top the LORD was standing and saying, “I am the LORD, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you now lie.

Genesis 28:21 · BSB

so that I may return safely to my father’s house, then the LORD will be my God.

Genesis 32:9 · BSB

Then Jacob declared, “O God of my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, the LORD who told me, ‘Go back to your country and to your kindred, and I will make you prosper,’

Matthew 22:3–33 · BSB

He sent his servants to call those he had invited to the banquet, but they refused to come.

Mark 12:26 · BSB

But concerning the dead rising, have you not read about the burning bush in the Book of Moses, how God told him, ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’ ?

Also

Exodus 3:15

Exodus 3:15 · BSB

God also told Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘The LORD, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob—has sent me to you.’ This is My name forever, and this is how I am to be remember…

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

36In fact, they can no longer die, because they are like the angels. And since they are sons of the resurrection, they are sons of God.

38He is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for to Him all are alive.”

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