John Gill - Exposition
John Gill
For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living,.... [See comments on Matthew 22:32] for all live unto him. The Persic version, reads, "all these live unto him"; namely, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; for though they are dead to men, they are not to God; their souls live with him, and their bodies will be raised by him: he reckons of them, as if they were now alive, for he quickens the dead, and...