Jesus answered and said unto them,
You do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
For what marvel then is it, He says, if you tempt me, who am as yet unknown to you, when at least ye know not so much as the power of God, of which you have had so much experience, and neither from common sense nor from the Scriptures have become acquainted with it; if indeed even common sense causes us to know this, that to God all things are possible. And in the first place He answers to the question asked. For since this was the cause for their not believing a resurrection, that they think the order of things is like this, He cures the cause, then the symptom also (for thence arose the disease too), and shows the manner of the resurrection. For in the resurrection, says He, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as angels of God in Heaven. But Luke says, As Sons of God. Luke 20:36
If then they marry not, the question is vain. But not because they do not marry, therefore are they angels, but because they are as angels, therefore they do not marry. By this He removed many other difficulties also, all which things Paul intimated by one word, saying, For the fashion of this world passes away. 1 Corinthians 7:31
