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Matthew 22:31

First Nations Version

Then he added, “You say you do not believe the dead will rise again. But have you not read what was told by the Maker of Life:

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and said to him, “Do you hear what these children are saying?” “I hear them,” he answered, “but have you not heard what the ancient Sacred Teachings say? ‘From the mouths of little children and nursing babies you have created praise.’”


He answered them, “Have you not heard about the time long ago when the great chief Much Loved One (David) was hungry?


“Are you blind to the Sacred Teachings?” he said to them. “Have you not read this: ‘The tree the lodge builders threw away has become the Chief Lodgepole. This is what the Great Spirit has done, and it will fill us with wonder’?


If you understood this saying, ‘I want kindness and compassion, not ceremonial sacrifices,’ you would not have blamed the innocent ones.


Go and learn this wise saying, ‘What I want is kindness and mercy, not animal sacrifices.’ I have not come for the ones with good hearts. I have come to help the outcasts find the path back home again.”


When the dead rise to life, there will be no marriage, for they will be like the spirit-messengers from the spirit-world above.”


‘I am the Great Spirit of Father of Many Nations (Abraham), of He Made Us Laugh (Isaac), and of Heel Grabber (Jacob)’? “He is not the Great Spirit of the dead but of the living.”





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