²⁷ He is not God of the dead, but of the living. You are quite wrong.”

⁹ For to this end Christ ^(A)died and lived again, that he might be Lord both ^(B)of the dead and of the living.

¹⁷ as it is written, ^(A)“I have made you the father of many nations”—in the presence of the God in whom he believed, ^(B)who gives life to the dead and calls into existence ^(C)the things that do not exist.

¹³ These all died in faith, ^(A)not having received the things promised, but ^(B)having seen them and greeted them from afar, and ^(C)having acknowledged that they were ^(D)strangers and exiles on the earth. ¹⁴ For people who speak thus make it clear that they are seeking a homeland. ¹⁵ If they had been thinking of that land from which they had gone out, ^(E)they would have had opportunity to return. ¹⁶ But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed ^(F)to be called their God, for ^(G)he has prepared for them a city.

²⁴ Jesus said to them, “Is this not the reason you are wrong, because ^(A)you know neither the Scriptures nor ^(B)the power of God?