for each tree is known by its own fruit. For figs are not gathered from thorns, nor are grapes picked from brambles.

But even Moses revealed that the dead are raised in the passage about the bush, where he calls the Lord the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.

“After forty years had passed, an angel appeared to him in the desert of Mount Sinai, in the flame of a burning bush.

Now as for the dead being raised, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the bush, how God said to him, ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’?