Mark 12:27 BSB — MannaFest

Mark 12:27

He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. You are badly mistaken!”

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

He is not the God of the dead, but of the living: ye do greatly err.

KJV

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

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Commentary

2 voices

Pseudo-Jerome

Catena Aurea by Aquinas

But when He says, The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob; by naming God thrice, He implied the Trinity. But when He says, He is not the God of the dead, by naming again the One God, he implies One Substance. But they live who make good the portion, which they had chosen; and they are dead, who have lost what they had made good. Ye therefore do greatly err.

The record, by era

The Medieval Church1 voice

Bede

Catena Aurea by Aquinas (735)

(ubi sup.) Or else; because after proving that the soul remained after death, (for God could not be God of those who did not exist at all,) the resurrection of the body also might be inferred as a consequence, since it had done good and evil with the soul.

The Nineteenth Century3 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

But the God of the living - Θεος, God, is left out by ABCDKL, and in more than forty others, Syriac, one Arabic, one Persic, Coptic, Armenian, Gothic, Saxon, Vulgate, Itala, and Origen. Griesbach has omitted it.

J.C. Ryle

1816–1900

Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Mark (lightly modernized text, Grace Gems edition) (1857)

These verses relate a conversation between our Lord Jesus Christ and the Sadducees. The religion of these men, we know, was little better than infidelity. They said there was "no resurrection." They too, like the Pharisees, thought to entangle and perplex our Lord with hard questions. The Church of Christ must not expect to fare better than its Master. Formalism on one side and infidelity on another, are two enemies for whose attacks we must always be prepared. We learn from this passage, how much unfairness may often be detected in the arguments of infidels .

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Original language & word study

8 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
οὐκ	ouk	Not	G3756 →
ἔστιν	estin	He is	G1510 →
θεὸς	theos	God	G2316 →
νεκρῶν	nekrōn	of [the] dead	G3498 →
ἀλλὰ	alla	but	G235 →
ζώντων·	zōntōn	of [the] living;	G2198 →
πολὺ	polu	Greatly	G4183 →
πλανᾶσθε.¶	planasthe	you err.	G4105 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

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
Romans 4:17
As it is written: “I have made you a father of many nations.” He is our father in the presence of God, in whom he believed, the God who gives life to the dead…
leads to
- 1 Corinthians 1:28
  He chose the lowly and despised things of the world, and the things that are not, to nullify the things that are,
- Genesis 17:4–5
  “As for Me, this is My covenant with you: You will be the father of many nations.
- John 5:21
  For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom He wishes.
- Romans 8:29–30
  For those God foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers.
- John 6:63
  The Spirit gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life.
Through
Hebrews 3:10
Therefore I was angry with that generation, and I said, ‘Their hearts are always going astray, and they have not known My ways.’
leads to
- Psalms 95:10
  For forty years I was angry with that generation, and I said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray, and they have not known My ways.”
Through
Mark 12:24
Jesus said to them, “Aren’t you mistaken, because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God?
leads to
- 2 Timothy 3:15–17
  From infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
- John 20:9
  For they still did not understand from the Scripture that Jesus had to rise from the dead.