Mark 12:18-27 Then come to him the Sadducees, which say there is no resurrection; and they asked him, saying,… Christ raises the question: Could God call Himself Abraham's God if He had permitted his hopes to be disappointed, and his whole life to be dissipated by the touch of death? Whatever we love we seek to keep alive, and, if God loved Abraham, would He let him die? If the Sadducee was right, Abraham was at the time a handful of desert dust in which certainly God could take no peculiar interest. The fact that man can engage the interest of God, speak to Him, enter into covenant with Him; be beloved, embraced, protected by God, is the proof of immortality. Because God lives, he will live also whom God loves. There are many arguments that go to prove immortality, but this is chief, that God loves man, delights in him, and would be Himself bereaved, and spend a desolate eternity, if death robbed Him of the spirits that trust Him. (R. Glover). Parallel Verses KJV: Then come unto him the Sadducees, which say there is no resurrection; and they asked him, saying,WEB: There came to him Sadducees, who say that there is no resurrection. They asked him, saying, |
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