Luke 20:27-40

The Question of the Resurrection Life (Mark 12:18 *, Matthew 22:23 *). The first peculiarity in Lk.'s account is Luke 20:34 a, the contrast between people in this world and those deemed worthy to attain the other world and the resurrection (which, as in Luke 14:14, seems limited to the righteous). In Luke 20:36 there is a further addition; in the other world men and women do not die, hence they need not (and so do not) marry. They are sons of the resurrection, i.e. have the characteristics of the risen and endless life. With Luke 20:37 f., especially all live unto Him, cf. 4Ma_7:18 f.as many as make righteousness their first thought are able to master the weakness of the flesh, believing that unto God they die not, as our patriarchs, A. and I. and J. died not, but that they live unto God. Similarly 4Ma_16:25, of the seven brother martyrs, who knew that men dying for God live unto God, as Uve A. and I. and J., and all the Patriarchs. The meaning seems to be that the pious dead, even before the Judgment, when the world regards them as dead, live with God in true bliss. Luke 20:39 is in Lk. only. With Luke 20:40 cf. Mark 12:34; Matthew 22:46, also Luke 14:6. Lk. has already (Luke 10:25) dealt with the question of the greatest commandment which Mk. and Mt. insert here.