Matthew 22 · Verse 29

Matthew 22:29

Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.
Matthew 22:29, King James Version

Matthew 22:29 in other translations

BSBJesus answered, “You are mistaken because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God.
WEBBut Jesus answered them, “You are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God.
ASVBut Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.
YLTAnd Jesus answering said to them, ‘Ye go astray, not knowing the Writings, nor the power of God;
DARBYAnd Jesus answering said to them, Ye err, not knowing the scriptures nor the power of God.
BBEBut Jesus said to them in answer, You are in error, not having knowledge of the Writings, or of the power of God.
WebsterJesus answered and said to them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.

What does Matthew 22:29 mean?

Barnes' Notes
Verse 29. Ye do err, not knowing, etc. They had taken a wrong view of the doctrine of the resurrection. It was not taught that men would marry there. The Scriptures, here, mean the books of the Old Testament. By appealing to them, he showed that the doctrine of the future state was there, and that the Sadducees should have believed it as it was, and not have added the absurd doctrine to it that men must live there as they do here. The way in which the enemies of the truth attempt to make a doctrine of the Bible ridiculous is by adding to it, and then calling it absurd. He produced a passage from the books of Moses, Mt 22:32, because they had also appealed to his writings, Mt 22:24. Other places of the Old Testament asserted it more clearly, Dan 12:2, Isa 26:19; but he wished to meet them on their own ground. None of those Scriptures asserted that men would live there as they do here, and therefore their reasoning was false.

Nor the power of God. They probably denied, as many have done since, that God could gather the scattered dust of the dead, and remould it into a body. On this ground they affirmed that the doctrine could not be true--opposing reason to revelation, and supporting that Infinite Power could not reorganize body that it had at first organized, and raise a body for its own dust which it had at first raised from nothing.

(e) "not knowing" Jn 20:9

Albert Barnes, 1834 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 29 Ye do err - Or, Ye are deceived - by your impure passions: not knowing the scriptures, which assert the resurrection: - nor the miraculous power of God (την δυναμιν του Θεου) by which it is to be effected. In Avoda Sara, fol. 18, Sanhedrin, fol. 90, it is said: "These are they which shall have no part in the world to come: Those who say, the Lord did not come from heaven; and those who say, the resurrection cannot be proved out of the law." Their deception appeared in their supposing, that if there were a resurrection, men and women were to marry and be given in marriage as in this life; which our Lord shows is not the case: for men and women there shall be like the angels of God, immortal, and free from all human passions, and from those propensities which were to continue with them only during this present state of existence. There shall be no death; and consequently no need of marriage to maintain the population of the spiritual world.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Matthew 22:23-33

The doctrines of Christ displeased the infidel Sadducees, as well as the Pharisees and Herodians. He carried the great truths of the resurrection and a future state, further than they had yet been reveled. There is no arguing from the state of things in this world, as to what will take place hereafter. Let truth be set in a clear light, and it appears in full strength. Having thus silenced them, our Lord proceeded…

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Matthew 22:29 in the original Greek

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

ἈποκριθεὶςApokritheisAnsweringG611
δὲdenowG1161
ὁho<the>G3588
ἸησοῦςIēsousJesusG2424
εἶπενeipensaidG2036
αὐτοῖς·autoisto them;G846
πλανᾶσθεplanastheYou errG4105
μὴmēnotG3361
εἰδότεςeidotesknowing
τὰςtastheG3588
γραφὰςgraphasScripturesG1124
μηδὲmēdenorG3366
τὴνtēntheG3588
δύναμινdunaminpowerG1411
τοῦtou<the>G3588
θεοῦ.theouof God.G2316

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Matthew 22:29

  • John 20:9

    For as yet they knew not the scripture, that he must rise again from the dead.

  • Romans 15:4

    For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.

  • Luke 1:37

    For with God nothing shall be impossible.

  • Jeremiah 32:17

    Ah Lord God! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee:

  • Daniel 12:2-3

    And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever.

  • Isaiah 26:19

    Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.

  • Psalms 17:15

    As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.

  • Psalms 73:25-26

    Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee. My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.

  • Philippians 3:21

    Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.

  • Genesis 18:14

    Is any thing too hard for the Lord? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.

  • Acts 26:8

    Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead?

  • Psalms 49:14-15

    Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling. But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me. Selah.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
not.
Job 19:25-27; Ps 16:9-11; 17:15; 49:14,15; 73:25,26; Isa 25:8; 26:19
Isa 57:1,2; Da 12:2,3; Ho 13:14; Lu 24:44-47; Joh 20:9; Ro 15:4
nor.
Ge 18:14; Jer 32:17; Lu 1:37; Ac 26:8; Php 3:21

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Context

  • Matthew 22:28

    Therefore in the resurrection whose wife shall she be of the seven? for they all had her.

  • Matthew 22:29

    Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.

  • Matthew 22:30

    For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.

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Matthew 22:29 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Entonces respondiendo Jesús, les dijo: Erráis ignorando las Escrituras, y el poder de Dios.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Et Jésus, répondant, leur dit: Vous errez, ne connaissant pas les écritures, ni la puissance de Dieu;
German
Elberfelder 1871		Jesus aber antwortete und sprach zu ihnen: Ihr irret, indem ihr die Schriften nicht kennet, noch die Kraft Gottes;
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Respondens autem Jesus, ait illis: Erratis nescientes Scripturas, neque virtutem Dei.