Matthew 22:30
New International Version
At the resurrection people will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven.

New Living Translation
For when the dead rise, they will neither marry nor be given in marriage. In this respect they will be like the angels in heaven.

English Standard Version
For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.

Berean Standard Bible
In the resurrection, people will neither marry nor be given in marriage. Instead, they will be like the angels in heaven.

Berean Literal Bible
For in the resurrection, neither do they marry, nor are given in marriage, but they are like angels in heaven.

King James Bible
For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.

New King James Version
For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels of God in heaven.

New American Standard Bible
For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.

NASB 1995
“For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.

NASB 1977
“For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.

Legacy Standard Bible
For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.

Amplified Bible
For in the resurrection neither do men marry nor are women given in marriage, but they are like angels in heaven [who do not marry nor produce children].

Christian Standard Bible
For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage but are like angels in heaven.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage but are like angels in heaven.

American Standard Version
For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as angels in heaven.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
For in the resurrection of the dead, they do not take wives, neither do men have wives, but they are like the Angels of God in Heaven.

Contemporary English Version
When God raises people to life, they won't marry. They will be like the angels in heaven.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For in the resurrection they shall neither marry nor be married; but shall be as the angels of God in heaven.

English Revised Version
For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as angels in heaven.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
When people come back to life, they don't marry. Rather, they are like the angels in heaven.

Good News Translation
For when the dead rise to life, they will be like the angels in heaven and will not marry.

International Standard Version
because in the resurrection, people neither marry nor are given in marriage but are like the angels in heaven.

Literal Standard Version
for in the resurrection they do not marry, nor are they given in marriage, but are as messengers of God in Heaven.

Majority Standard Bible
In the resurrection, people will neither marry nor be given in marriage. Instead, they will be like the angels of God in heaven.

New American Bible
At the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage but are like the angels in heaven.

NET Bible
For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.

New Revised Standard Version
For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.

New Heart English Bible
For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are like the angels in heaven.

Webster's Bible Translation
For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.

Weymouth New Testament
For in the Resurrection, men neither marry nor are women given in marriage, but they are like angels in Heaven.

World English Bible
For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like God’s angels in heaven.

Young's Literal Translation
for in the rising again they do not marry, nor are they given in marriage, but are as messengers of God in heaven.

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Context
The Sadducees and the Resurrection
29Jesus answered, “You are mistaken because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God. 30 In the resurrection, people will neither marry nor be given in marriage. Instead, they will be like the angels in heaven. 31But concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what God said to you:…

Cross References
Matthew 22:31
But concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what God said to you:

Matthew 24:38
For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark.

Luke 17:27
People were eating and drinking, marrying and being given in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.


Treasury of Scripture

For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.

in the.

Mark 12:24,25
And Jesus answering said unto them, Do ye not therefore err, because ye know not the scriptures, neither the power of God? …

Luke 20:34-36
And Jesus answering said unto them, The children of this world marry, and are given in marriage: …

John 5:28,29
Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, …

as.

Matthew 13:43
Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.

Matthew 18:10
Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, That in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven.

Psalm 103:20
Bless the LORD, ye his angels, that excel in strength, that do his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his word.

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Matthew 22
1. The parable of the marriage of the king's son.
9. The vocation of the Gentiles.
12. The punishment of him who lacked a wedding garment.
15. Tribute ought to be paid to Caesar.
23. Jesus confutes the Sadducees for the resurrection;
34. answers which is the first and great commandment;
41. and puzzles the Pharisees by a question about the Messiah.














(30) They neither marry, nor are given in marriage.--In St. Luke's report (Luke 20:34-35) our Lord emphasises the contrast in this respect between the children of this world and the children of the resurrection. His words teach absolutely the absence from the resurrection life of the definite relations on which marriage rests in this, and they suggest an answer to the yearning questions which rise up in our minds as we ponder on the things behind the veil. Will there, we ask, be no continuance there of the holiest of the ties of earth? Will the husband and the wife, who have loved each other until death parted them, be no more to each other than any others who are counted worthy to obtain that life? Will there be no individual recognition, no continuance of the love founded upon the memories of the past? The answer to all such questionings is found in dwelling on the "power of God." The old relations may subsist under new conditions. Things that are incompatible here may there be found to co-exist. The saintly wife of two saintly husbands may love both with an angelic, and therefore a pure and unimpaired affection. The contrast between our Lord's teaching and the sensual paradise of Mahomet, or Swedenborg's dream of the marriage state perpetuated under its earthly conditions, is so obvious as hardly to call for notice.

Verse 30. - For. The Lord proceeds first to show the power of God as displayed in the resurrection. The Sadducees would limit and control this power by conceiving that it could not change the qualities of the body or alter the conditions and relations of the human consciousness. In the resurrection (see on ver. 28). Marry; as men. Are given in marriage; as women. Marriage is an earthly relationship, and can have no place in a spiritual condition. All that is of the earth, all that is carnal and gross, all human passions, all that is connected with sin and corruption, shall pass away. The risen life is no mere reproduction of the present, but a regeneration, new life added to the old, with new powers, acting under new laws, ranged in a new community. On earth men are mortal, and marriage is necessary to perpetuate the race; no such necessity obtains in the other life, where men are immortal. As an old Father says, "Where the law of death is abolished, the cause of birth is abolished likewise." Are as the angels of God in heaven; i.e. as the angels who dwell in heaven. The words, τοῦ Θεοῦ, of God, are omitted by some manuscripts and editors. The Vulgate has, angeli Dei in coelo. Thus Christ, in opposition to the Saddueces' creed, admits the existence of angels. Glorified men are like the angels in these characteristics especially. They are immortal, no longer subject to human wants, passions, failings, or temptations; they serve God perfectly without weariness or distraction; they have no conflict between flesh and spirit, between the old nature and the new; their life is peaceful, harmonious, satisfying. Our Lord says nothing here concerning mutual recognition in the future state; nothing about the continuance of those tender relations which he sanctions and blesses on earth, and in the absence of which we cannot imagine perfect happiness existing. Analogy supplies some answer to such questions, but they are foreign to Christ's statement, and need not be here discussed.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
In
ἐν (en)
Preposition
Strong's 1722: In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; 'in, ' at, on, by, etc.

the
τῇ (tē)
Article - Dative Feminine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

resurrection,
ἀναστάσει (anastasei)
Noun - Dative Feminine Singular
Strong's 386: A rising again, resurrection. From anistemi; a standing up again, i.e. a resurrection from death (its author), or a recovery.

[people] will neither marry
γαμοῦσιν (gamousin)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 1060: To marry, used of either sex. From gamos; to wed.

nor
οὔτε (oute)
Conjunction
Strong's 3777: And not, neither, nor. From ou and te; not too, i.e. Neither or nor; by analogy, not even.

be given in marriage.
γαμίζονται (gamizontai)
Verb - Present Indicative Middle or Passive - 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 1061: To give in marriage. From gamos; to espouse.

Instead,
ἀλλ’ (all’)
Conjunction
Strong's 235: But, except, however. Neuter plural of allos; properly, other things, i.e. contrariwise.

they will be
εἰσιν (eisin)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 1510: I am, exist. The first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist.

like
ὡς (hōs)
Adverb
Strong's 5613: Probably adverb of comparative from hos; which how, i.e. In that manner.

[the] angels
ἄγγελοι (angeloi)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 32: From aggello; a messenger; especially an 'angel'; by implication, a pastor.

in
ἐν (en)
Preposition
Strong's 1722: In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; 'in, ' at, on, by, etc.

heaven.
οὐρανῷ (ouranō)
Noun - Dative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3772: Perhaps from the same as oros; the sky; by extension, heaven; by implication, happiness, power, eternity; specially, the Gospel.


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