# Now This word marks the switch from telling about Moses to explaining how what Moses said proves that people rise from the dead. # he is not the God of the dead, but of the living "the Lord is not the God of dead people; he is the God of living people". Since these living people died physically, they must still be alive spiritually. # because all live to him "because in God's sight they all are still alive" or "because they live in God's presence"