Bible Strands
Luke 20:37
Even Moses demonstrates that the dead are raised, in the passage about the burning bush. For he calls the Lord ‘the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Jesus addresses his interlocutors in the temple, immediately following the resurrection discussion in Luke 20:36, to prove the dead are raised.
The words — ἐγεὶρονται (egeirontai) translates literally as "are raised," and ἐμήνυσεν (emēnusen) means "showed" or "demonstrated," anchoring the claim that Moses proved resurrection.
The thread — The burning bush narrative appears in Exodus 3:2, Mark 12:26, and Acts 7:30, consistently linking God's self-identification as the God of the patriarchs to the reality of resurrection.
Why it lands — The text demands recognition that God's covenant titles are active, not historical relics, requiring readers to accept resurrection as a present reality before Him.
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The Greek words
King James Version
Now that the dead are raised, even Moses shewed at the bush, when he calleth the Lord the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.
Cross-references
- Exodus 3:2 There the angel of the LORD appeared to him in a blazing fire from within a bush. Moses saw the bush ablaze with fire, but it was not consumed.
- Mark 12:26 But concerning the dead rising, have you not read about the burning bush in the Book of Moses, how God told him, ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’?
- Acts 7:30 After forty years had passed, an angel appeared to Moses in the flames of a burning bush in the desert near Mount Sinai.
- Genesis 17:7 I will establish My covenant as an everlasting covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.
- Genesis 28:13 And there at the top the LORD was standing and saying, “I am the LORD, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you now lie.
- Genesis 28:21 so that I may return safely to my father’s house, then the LORD will be my God.
- Genesis 32:9 Then Jacob declared, “O God of my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, the LORD who told me, ‘Go back to your country and to your kindred, and I will make you prosper,’
- Exodus 3:15 God also told Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘The LORD, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob—has sent me to you.’ This is My name forever, and this is how I am to be remembered in every generation.
- Deuteronomy 33:16 with the choice gifts of the land and everything in it, and with the favor of Him who dwelt in the burning bush. May these rest on the head of Joseph and crown the brow of the prince of his brothers.
- Matthew 22:3 He sent his servants to call those he had invited to the banquet, but they refused to come.