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.
• English Standard Version (ESV)for they cannot die anymore, because they are equal to angels and are sons of God, being sons 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.

Context of Luke 20:36

34Yeshua said to them, “The sons of this age marry and are given in marriage. 35But those considered worthy to reach the olam ha-ba and the resurrection of the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage. For they can no longer die, because they are like angels and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection. 37But at the burning bush even Moses revealed that the dead are raised, when he calls Adonai ‘the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’ 38Now He is God not of the dead but of the living, for to Him they all are living.”

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. my Lord Adonai will wipe away tears from every face. He will remove His people’s reproach from all the earth. For Adonai has spoken.
• Hosea 13:14Should I ransom them from the hand of Sheol? Should I redeem them from death? O death, where are your plagues? O Sheol, where is your sting? Comfort is hidden from My eyes.”
• 1 Corinthians 15:26The last enemy to be destroyed is death.
• Philippians 3:21He will transform this humble body of ours into the likeness of His glorious body, through the power that enables Him even to put all things in subjection to Himself.
• 1 Thessalonians 4:13Now we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters, about those who are asleep, so that you may not grieve like the rest who have no hope.
• Revelation 20:6How fortunate and holy is the one who has a share in the first resurrection! Over such the second death has no authority, but they shall be kohanim of God and the Messiah, and they shall reign with Him for a thousand years.
• Revelation 21:4He shall wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more. Nor shall there be mourning or crying or pain any longer, for the former things have passed away.”
• Revelation 22:2down the middle of the city’s street. On either side of the river was a tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit each month; and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
• Zechariah 3:7‘Thus says Adonai-Tzva’ot, “If you will walk in My ways and keep My charge, then you will judge My House and watch over My courts and I will give you a place to walk among these 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 up from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.
• 1 Corinthians 15:49And just as we have borne the image of the one made from dust, so also shall we bear the image of the One from heaven.
• Revelation 5:6And in the midst of the throne and the four living creatures, and in the midst of the elders, I saw a Lamb standing, as having been slain—having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth.
• Revelation 7:9After these things I looked, and behold, a vast multitude that no one could count—from every nation and all tribes and peoples and tongues—was standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands
• Revelation 22:9But he tells me, “See that you do not do that! I am a fellow servant with you and your brothers the prophets and those keeping the words of this book. Worship God!”
• Romans 8:17And if children, also heirs—heirs of God and joint-heirs with Messiah—if indeed we suffer with Him so 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
• Children of God
• Angel
• Heaven
• Body, Spiritual
• Celestial
• Equal
• Eschatology of the New Testament
• Jesus Christ
• Luke, the Gospel of

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