Matthew Henry Commentary Luke 20:27-38

"And there came to him certain of the Sadducees, they that say that there is no resurrection; and they asked him, saying, Teacher, Moses wrote unto us, that if a man`s brother die, having a wife, and he be childless, his brother should take the wife, and raise up seed unto his brother. There were therefore seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and died childless; and the second: and the third took her; and likewise the seven also left no children, and died. Afterward the woman also died. In the resurrection therefore whose wife of them shall she be? for the seven had her to wife. And Jesus said unto them, The sons of this world marry, and are given in marriage: but they that are accounted worthy to attain to that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage: for neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection. But that the dead are raised, even Moses showed, in [the place concerning] the Bush, when he calleth the Lord the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Now he is not the God of the dead, but of the living: for all live unto him." — Luke 20:27-38 (ASV)

It is common for those who intend to undermine any truth of God to load it with difficulties. But we wrong ourselves, and wrong the truth of Christ, when we form our conceptions of the world of spirits by this world of sense. There are more worlds than one: a present, visible world, and a future, unseen world. Let everyone compare this world and that world, and give the preference in his thoughts and cares to that which deserves them.

Believers will obtain the resurrection from the dead, that is, the blessed resurrection. What the happy state of the inhabitants of that world will be, we cannot express or conceive (1 Corinthians 2:9). Those who have entered into the joy of their Lord are entirely taken up with it; when there is perfection of holiness, there will be no occasion for safeguards against sin. And when God called himself the God of these patriarchs, he meant that he was a God all-sufficient for them (Genesis 17:1), their exceeding great Reward (Genesis 15:1). He never did that for them in this world which answered the full extent of his undertaking; therefore, there must be another life, in which he will do that for them which will completely fulfill the promise.