Mark 12:27
Good News Translation
He is the God of the living, not of the dead. You are completely wrong!"

New Revised Standard Version
He is God not of the dead, but of the living; you are quite wrong.”

Contemporary English Version
He isn't the God of the dead, but of the living. You Sadducees are all wrong.

New American Bible
He is not God of the dead but of the living. You are greatly misled.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. You therefore do greatly err.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. You therefore do greatly err.

is not.

Romans 4:17 (As it is written: I have made thee a father of many nations), before God, whom he believed: who quickeneth the dead and calleth those things that are not, as those that are.

Romans 14:9 For to this end Christ died and rose again: that he might be Lord both of the dead and of the living.

Hebrews 11:13-16 All these died according to faith, not having received the promises but beholding them afar off and saluting them and confessing that they are pilgrims and strangers on the earth. . . .

ye.

Mark 12:24 And Jesus answering, saith to them: Do ye not therefore err, because you know not the scriptures nor the power of God?

Proverbs 19:27 Cease not, O my son, to hear instruction, and be not ignorant of the words of knowledge.

Hebrews 3:10 Forty years: for which cause I was offended with this generation, and I said: They always err in heart. And they have not known my ways.

Context
The Sadducees and the Resurrection
26And as concerning the dead that they rise again have you not read in the book of Moses, how in the bush God spoke to him, saying: I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob? 27He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. You therefore do greatly err. 28And there came one of the scribes that had heard them reasoning together, and seeing that he had answered them well, asked him which was the first commandment of all.…
Cross References
Matthew 22:29
And Jesus answering, said to them: You err, not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God.

Matthew 22:32
I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob? He is not the God of the dead but of the living.

Luke 20:38
For he is not the God of the dead, but of the living: for all live to him.

Mark 12:26
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