Luke 20:36

Luke 20:36 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.
• New International Version (NIV)and they can no longer die; for they are like the angels. They are God’s children, since they are children of the resurrection.
• New King James Version (NKJV)nor can they die anymore, for they are equal to the angels and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection.
• New Living Translation (NLT)And they will never die again. In this respect they will be like angels. They are children of God and children of the resurrection.

Context of Luke 20:36

34And Jesus said to them, "The sons of this age marry and are given in marriage, 35but those who are considered worthy to attain to that age and to the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage, for they cannot die anymore, because they are equal to angels and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection. 37But that the dead are raised, even Moses showed, in the passage about the bush, where he calls the Lord the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob. 38Now he is not God of the dead, but of the living, for all live to him."

Luke 20:36 word by word

οὐδὲ γὰρ ἀποθανεῖν ἔτι δύνανται, ἰσάγγελοι γάρ εἰσιν, καὶ υἱοί εἰσιν θεοῦ τῆς ἀναστάσεως υἱοὶ ὄντες.Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• ·γάρgar · forG1063
• Neitherοὔτεoute · neitherG3777
• canδύναμαιdunamai · be ableG1410
• they dieἀποθνήσκωapothnēskō · to dieG599
• any moreἔτιeti · stillG2089
• they areεἰμίeimi · to beG1510
• equal unto the angelsἰσάγγελοςisaggelos · like an angelG2465
• andκαίkai · andG2532
• the childrenυἱόςuihos · sonG5207
• of Godὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
• of Godθεόςtheos · GodG2316
• of the resurrectionἀνάστασιςanastasis · resurrectionG386

Cross-references for Luke 20:36

• Isaiah 25:8He will swallow up death forever; and the Lord God will wipe away tears from all faces, and the reproach of his people he will take away from all the earth, for the Lord has spoken.
• Hosea 13:14I shall ransom them from the power of Sheol; I shall redeem them from Death. O Death, where are your plagues? O Sheol, where is your sting? Compassion is hidden from my eyes.
• 1 Corinthians 15:26The last enemy to be destroyed is death.
• Philippians 3:21who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.
• 1 Thessalonians 4:13But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope.
• Revelation 20:6Blessed and holy is the one who shares in the first resurrection! Over such the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and they will reign with him for a thousand years.
• Revelation 21:4He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away."
• Revelation 22:2through the middle of the street of the city; also, on either side of the river, the tree of life with its twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit each month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
• Zechariah 3:7"Thus says the Lord of hosts: If you will walk in my ways and keep my charge, then you shall rule my house and have charge of my courts, and I will give you the right of access among those who are standing here.
• Matthew 22:30For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.
• Mark 12:25For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.
• 1 Corinthians 15:49Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven.
• Revelation 5:6And between the throne and the four living creatures and among the elders I saw a Lamb standing, as though it had been slain, with seven horns and with seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth.
• Revelation 7:9After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands,
• Revelation 22:9but he said to me, "You must not do that! I am a fellow servant with you and your brothers the prophets, and with those who keep the words of this book. Worship God."
• Romans 8:17and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him.

Commentaries on Luke 20:36

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 36Equal unto the angels - Who neither marry nor die. See the Jewish testimonies to the resurrection of the human body quoted at length on 1 Corinthians 15:42; (note).Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 20-38Verses 20-38 See this explained in the Mark 12:13-27 notes.Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 27-38Verses 27-38 It is common for those who design to undermine any truth of God, to load it with difficulties. But we wrong ourselves, and wrong the truth of Christ, when we form our notions of the world of spirits by this world of sense. There are more worlds than one; a present visible world, and a future unseen world; and let every one compare this world and that world, and give the preference in his thoughts and cares to that which deserves them…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 36because they are like the angels: Angels are not married, and they are immortal. The Bible never teaches that people become angels (compare Hebrews 1:5–2:18), but that we will be like them.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 3636. neither ... die any more--Marriage is ordained to perpetuate the human family; but as there will be no breaches by death in the future state, this ordinance will cease. equal--or "like." unto the angels--that is, in the immortality of their nature. children of God--not in respect of character but nature; "being the children of the resurrection" to an undecaying existence (Ro 8:21, 23). And thus the children of their Father's immortality (1Ti 6:16).Read the comment

Topics related to Luke 20:36

• Angel (a Spirit)
• Dead (People)
• Death
• Heaven
• Immortality
• Jesus, the Christ
• Life
• Resurrection
• Righteous
• Sadducees

In the dictionaries

• God
• god, false god, goddess, idol, idolater, idolatrous, idolatry
• Children of God
• Angel
• Heaven
• Body, Spiritual
• Celestial
• Equal
• Eschatology of the New Testament
• Jesus Christ

Commentaries on Luke 20

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Catena Aurea
• Illustrated New Testament
• Burkitt’s Expository Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Family Bible Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• John Lightfoot Commentary
• Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• The People’s New Testament
• Robertson’s Word Pictures
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• The Fourfold Gospel and Commentary on Acts
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings