Matthew 22:32 → Exodus 3:6

Jesus argues from the covenant-bond itself, pressed through His own present-tense inference — "He is not the God of the dead, but of the living" — to prove resurrection: God is (not was) the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. The anchor clause of Exodus 3:6 is a verbless Hebrew nominal sentence, so the present-tense weight rests not on a copula in the Old Testament text but on the covenant relationship and on Jesus's own present-tense verb. If God currently identifies as their God centuries after their deaths, they must still be alive to him. God does not maintain covenant relationship with non-existent persons. This demonstrates Jesus' sophisticated hermeneutical reasoning, extracting resurrection doctrine from Torah's grammatical details. He answers the Sadducees on their own authoritative ground, proving they understand neither Scripture nor God's power to grant resurrection life.