Matthew 22:32 · King James Version
Matthew 22:32 in the Original Greek
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Matthew 22:32 in Other Translations
| KJV | I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living. |
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| WEB | ‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?’God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.” |
| ASV | I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living. |
| YLT | I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not a God of dead men, but of living.’ |
| WBT | I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living. |
| DBY | I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not God of [the] dead, but of [the] living. |
Commentary on Matthew 22:32
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Jamieson, Fausset & Brown · Matthew 22:14
For many are called, but few are chosen--So Mat 19:30. See on Mat 20:16.
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Questions about Matthew 22:32
What does Matthew 22:32 say?
Matthew 22:32 in the King James Version reads: “I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.” Read it in the full context of Matthew 22, alongside the classic commentary on this page.
Where is Matthew 22:32 found in the Bible?
Matthew 22:32 is in the book of Matthew, chapter 22, verse 32, in the New Testament.
What Bible translation is Matthew 22:32 shown in?
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Then one of them, which was a lawyer,.... Or that was "learned", or "skilful in the law", as the Syriac and Persic versions, and Munster's Hebrew Gospel read. The Ethiopic version calls him, "a Scribe of the city", of the city of Jerusalem; but I do not meet with any such particular officer, or any such office peculiar to a single man any where: mention is made of "the Scribes of the people" in Mat 2:4 and this man was one of them, one that interpreted the law to the people, either in the schools, or in the synagogues, or both; and Mark expressly calls him a "Scribe": and so the Arabic version renders the word here; and from hence it may be concluded that the lawyers and Scribes were the same sort of persons. This man was by sect a Pharisee, and by his office a Scribe; or interpreter of the law, and suitable to his office and character,
asked him a question, tempting him, and saying: he put a difficult and knotty question to him, and thereby making a trial of his knowledge and understanding of the law; and laying a snare for him, to entrap him if he could, and expose him to the people, as a very ignorant man: and delivered it in the following form.