Luke 20:35

But those who are considered worthy to attain to that age and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage.

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WEBBE

But those who are considered worthy to attain to that age and the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage.

BSB

But those who are considered worthy to share in the age to come and in the resurrection from the dead will neither marry nor be given in marriage.

KJV

But they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage:

ASV

but they that are accounted worthy to attain to that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage:

BBE

But those to whom is given the reward of the world to come, and to come back from the dead, have no wives, and are not married;

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οἱ hoi those G3588 δὲ de however G1161 καταξιωθέντες kataxiōthentes having been considered worthy G2661 τοῦ tou of the G3588 αἰῶνος aiōnos age G165 ἐκείνου ekeinou that [one] G1565 τυχεῖν tuchein to obtain G5177 καὶ kai and G2532 τῆς tēs of the G3588 ἀναστάσεως anastaseōs resurrection G386 τῆς tēs (the) G3588 ἐκ ek from G1537 νεκρῶν nekrōn [the] dead G3498 οὔτε oute neither G3777 γαμοῦσιν gamousin marry G1060 οὔτε oute nor G3777 γαμίζονται gamizontai are given in marriage G1061

The early church

(de Quæst. Ev. l. ii. cap. 49.) For marriages are for the sake of children, children for succession, succession because of death. Where then there is no death, there are no marriages; and hence it follows, But they which shall be accounted worthy, &c.
Augustine of Hippo · d. 430Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)
Which must not be taken as if only they who are worthy were either to rise again or be without marriage, but all sinners also shall rise again, and abide without marriage in that new world. But our Lord wished to mention only the elect, that He might incite the minds of His hearers to search into the glory of the resurrection.
Bede · d. 735Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)
As if He said, Because it is God who worketh in the resurrection, rightly are they called the sons of God, who are regenerated by the resurrection. For there is nothing carnal seen in the regeneration of them that rise again, there is neither coming together, nor the womb, nor birth.
Theophylact of Ohrid · d. 1107Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)
But because the Lord says in Matthew, which is here omitted, Ye do err, not knowing the Scriptures, (Mat. 22:29.) I ask the question, where is it so written, They shall neither marry, nor be given in marriage? for as I conceive there is no such thing to be found either in the Old or New Testament, but the whole of their error had crept in from the reading of the Scriptures without understanding; for it is said in Esaias, My elect shall not have children for a curse. (Isai. 65:23.) Whence they suppose that the like will happen in the resurrection. But Paul interpreting all these blessings as spiritual, knowing them not to be carnal, says to the Ephesians, Ye have blessed us in all spiritual blessings. (Eph. 1:3.)
Origen of Alexandria · d. 253Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 27–38

It is common for those who design 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 notions 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; and let every one compare this world and that world, and give the preference in his thoughts and cares to that which deserves them. Believers shall obtain the resurrection from the dead, that is the blessed resurrection. What shall be the happy state of the inhabitants of that world, we cannot express or conceive, 1Co 2:9. Those that are entered into the joy of their Lord, are entirely taken up therewith; when there is perfection of holiness there will be no occasion for preservatives from sin. And when God called himself the God of these patriarchs, he meant that he was a God all-sufficient to them, Ge 17:1, their exceeding great Reward, Ge 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 fulfil the promise.

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