He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living. Therefore you are greatly mistaken."
Jesus answered and said to them, "You err, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God.
'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."
Jesus answered and said to them, "Is this not the reason you are mistaken, because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God?
"For He is not the God of the dead but of the living, for all are alive to Him."
For to this end Christ died and rose and lived again, so that He might be Lord of both the dead and the living.
(just as it is written, "I have appointed you a father of many nations") before God, whom he believed, the One who gives life to the dead and calls those things which are not as though they were;
Therefore I was indignant with that generation, and said, 'They go astray in their heart; and they did not know My ways.'