Jesus said to them, “The children of this age marry, and are given in marriage.
Parallel translations
- KJV And Jesus answering said unto them, The children of this world marry, and are given in marriage:
- BSB Jesus answered, “The sons of this age marry and are given in marriage.
- NKJV Jesus answered and said to them, “The sons of this age marry and are given in marriage.
- NASB Jesus said to them, “The sons of this age marry and the women are given in marriage,
- NLT Jesus replied, “Marriage is for people here on earth.
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Quick answer
Jesus answers that marriage belongs to this present age, the world as it now is.
Overview
He begins correcting the Sadducees by distinguishing the present age from the age to come. Marriage, with its purpose of companionship and bringing forth children, belongs to this mortal world. Their riddle collapses because they wrongly projected earthly customs onto the world of resurrection.
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Cross-references · 5
- Luke 16:8“His lord commended the dishonest manager because he had done wisely, for the children of this world are, in their own generation, wiser than the children of the light.
- Luke 17:27They ate, they drank, they married, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ship, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.
- Heb 13:4Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
- 1 Cor 7:2–16But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
- Eph 5:31“For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh.”
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