29 There were therefore seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and died without children.

Other Translations of Luke 20:29

New International Version

29 Now there were seven brothers. The first one married a woman and died childless.

English Standard Version

29 Now there were seven brothers. The first took a wife, and died without children.

The Message

29 Well, there once were seven brothers. The first took a wife. He died childless.

New King James Version

29 Now there were seven brothers. And the first took a wife, and died without children.

New Living Translation

29 Well, suppose there were seven brothers. The oldest one married and then died without children.

Matthew Henry's Commentary on Luke 20:29

Commentary on Luke 20:27-38

(Read Luke 20:27-38)

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, Genesis 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.