²⁶ “But now as to whether there will be a resurrection—have you never read in the book of Exodus about Moses and the burning bush? God said to Moses, ‘I am the God of Abraham, and I am the God of Isaac, and I am the God of Jacob.’

²⁷ “God was telling Moses that these men, though dead for hundreds of years,^[a] were still very much alive, for he would not have said, ‘I am the God’ of those who don’t exist! You have made a serious error.”

²⁸ One of the teachers of religion who was standing there listening to the discussion realized that Jesus had answered well. So he asked, “Of all the commandments, which is the most important?”