Luke 20:34 BSB — MannaFest

Luke 20:34

Jesus answered, “The sons of this age marry and are given in marriage.

BSB

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ASV

And Jesus said unto them, The sons of this world marry, and are given in marriage:

KJV

And Jesus answering said unto them, The children of this world marry, and are given in marriage:

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Commentary

1 voice

Cyril of Alexandria

COMMENTARY ON LUKE, HOMILY 136 (444)

Let us also see what Christ said to them. He says, "The children of this world that lead worldly, fleshly lives full of fleshly lust marry and are married for the procreation of children. Those who have maintained an honorable and chosen life, full of all excellence, and have been accounted worthy of attaining to a glorious and marvelous resurrection, certainly will be raised far above the life which people lead in this world. They will live as is suitable for saints who already have been brought near to God.

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The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

The children of this world - Men and women in their present state of mortality and probation; procreation being necessary to restore the waste made by death, and to keep up the population of the earth.

J.C. Ryle

1816–1900

Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Luke (lightly modernized text, Grace Gems edition) (1858)

We see in these verses — what an old thing unbelief is. We are told that "Some of the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to Jesus with a question." Even in the Jewish Church, the Church of Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, the Church of Moses, and Samuel, and David, and the prophets — we find that there were bold, avowed, unblushing skeptics . If infidelity like this existed among God's people, the Jews — then what must have been the state of heathenism?

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Original language & word study

13 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
Καὶ	Kai	And	G2532 →
εἶπεν	eipen	said	G2036 →
αὐτοῖς	autois	to them	G846 →
ὁ	ho	<the>	G3588 →
Ἰησοῦς·	Iēsous	Jesus;	G2424 →
οἱ	hoi	The	G3588 →
υἱοὶ	huioi	sons	G5207 →
τοῦ	tou	of the	G3588 →
αἰῶνος	aiōnos	age	G165 →
τούτου	toutou	this	G3778 →
γαμοῦσιν	gamousin	marry	G1060 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
γαμίσκονται,	gamiskontai	are given in marriage,	G1061 →

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Hebrews 13:4
Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
leads to
- Genesis 2:24
  For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Proverbs 5:15–23
  Drink water from your own cistern, and running water from your own well.
- 1 Corinthians 7:2–16
  But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.
- Galatians 5:19
  The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery;
- Genesis 1:27–28
  So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
Through
Ephesians 5:31
“For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”
leads to
- Matthew 19:5
  and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’?
- Mark 10:7–8
  ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife,
Through
Luke 16:8
The master commended the dishonest manager because he had acted shrewdly. For the sons of this age are more shrewd in dealing with their own kind than are the sons of light.
leads to
- 1 Thessalonians 5:5
  For you are all sons of the light and sons of the day; we do not belong to the night or to the darkness.

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02Original language & word study

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Where the connections lead

04Related verses

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06About Luke

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Where the connections lead

Commentary

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The walk

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About Luke