Does Jesus quote 1 Enoch?

The book of Enoch is canonical in the Tewahedo Orthodox churches of Ethiopia and Eritrea in East Africa, but not for anyone else -- not even the other churches of the Oriental Orthodox communion to which the Orthodox Tewahedo belong (the Coptic, Syriac Orthodox, Armenian, etc. churches do not have this book as part of their respective Biblical canons).

friend of said:

Matthew 22:29 Jesus answered, “You are mistaken because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God. 30 In the resurrection, people will neither marry nor be given in marriage. Instead they will be like the angels of heaven."

I cannot find this quote, which expressly states that people will not marry, in the 66 books of the bible. I checked my NIV and NKJV and there was no footnote, strangely. Where did it come from and could it have been quoted from 1 Enoch? Jesus tells them they are mistaken for NOT understanding the scriptures, but which scriptures did Jesus have in mind when He told them about how things would be in future heaven with regard to marriage?

Below, there is no mention by any of these theologians where these scriptures of authority on the matter are to be found (I've read through them) and no mention is made of Jesus' source in the OT:

Matthew 22:29 - But Jesus answered... - Verse-by-Verse Commentary
Matthew 22:30 -

So let's see if it's true. So far I've found this verse which speaks on the matter—
http://scriptural-truth.com/images/BookOfEnoch.pdf

1 Enoch 51:4 And in those days the mountains will leap like rams, and the hills will skip like lambs satisfied with milk, and all will become Angels in Heaven.

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So, is 1 Enoch canonical for this present day? Why or why not. I could be totally off-base in all this and I admit as much. I think it's worth exploring if anyone has any insight that'd be great. Anyone who's read 1 Enoch let us know what your thoughts are. I'm undecided. Probably not, but I'm open to suggestions.

God bless,

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It actually comes from Enoch 15. The concept is throughout that whole chapter but primarily verses 3 through 7. Speaking the angels who mated with women, He states:

friend of said:

@SeventyOne So then in your view Jesus does, in fact, quote 1 Enoch 15:3-7?

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Yes, and the kicker is that He also calls it 'scripture'.

I've never seen this connection made before, and it's a very good one. All my commentators are silent on the subject, which is interesting.

My own reading of 1 Enoch was that the first section felt very canonical, but then the book became much more disjointed, and I could see its overall canonicity falling into doubt.

Probably the go-to guy on Enoch is Michael Heiser, who has written a few books on various aspects of its theology. He's come up with some out-of-the-box, challenging ideas that make for some real food for thought. Here's a lecture where he touches on the allusions to 1 Enoch in Scripture. Should the Book of Enoch be in the Bible? - Dr. Michael Heiser . You can skip to 15:00 to save time, and then again to 35:00. Heiser's main pertinent point is that even though there are references to 1 Enoch in scripture, there are Scriptural references to plenty of other works as well, works that we assuredly don't want anywhere near the canon.

That's a powerful argument, but then, in this Matthean verse Jesus does seem to reference His source, whatever it might be, as "Scripture". And without checking, I don't think anything like that is true of the other Scriptural allusions people usually point out.

In that video Heiser cites a very thorough source for Scriptural allusions to Enoch and other works. I found it at New Testament Allusions to Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha – biblicalia. Under the Enoch section you will find references to the Matthew verse at points 15 and 37, or just do a page search for 'like angels'.

I don’t think he is necessarily quoting it.

It’s a similar statement, sure, but it doesn’t concretely prove that he quoted the so-called book of Enoch.

friend of said:

Fair enough.

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Surely we can piece doctrine together on this, because he says to them, “you do not know the scriptures”.

It must be in the Law & Prophets(OT) in some fashion for him to say that.

friend of said:

I recently read through OT like, last month and I couldn't find anything eluding to Christ's words in Matthew 22:30. I could be wrong and I might have missed it, so if anyone knows the exact scripture from the OT which Christ referenced, please let me know.

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Well, that would be the test. If Jesus called it scripture, and one makes the argument that the current OT in our Bibles is completed, then one could be able to go right to that part which states angels in Heaven do not marry and that we will be like them in that regard.

Funny thing is, Jesus quotes Enoch after the Sadducees asked him a question about a woman who married seven brothers, bearing no child, whose wife would she be in the resurrection. That was a situation pulled directly from Tobias 3, and not a hypothetical. That whole exchange deals with references to apocryphal texts, and most people have zero clue.

No, the Sadducees' argument is against the concept of afterlife. Sadducees are a minority group rejected the idea of afterlife. Their argument in Matthew 22 is against the concept of resurrection itself, while they only accept the first 5 books of the Scripture. That's why Jesus rebuked them by saying that they don't know the Scripture and explained to them what they questioned. The situation has nothing to do with the book of Enoch.

HARK! said:

(CLV) Ju 1:14
Now Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesies to these also, saying, "Lo! the Lord came among ten thousand of His saints,

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i consider 2 possibilities... he was quoting a prophesy passed down by Enoch, or quoting from the book of Enoch.

quoting it doesn’t necessarily give it authority.

Dkh587 said:

i consider 2 possibilities... he was quoting a prophesy passed down by Enoch, or quoting from the book of Enoch.

quoting it doesn’t necessarily give it authority.

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Here, Jude references Enoch 2, calling it 'prophesy'. 2 Peter 1:21 tells us that no prophecy ever came by the will of man, but by men speaking from God.

By definition, if scripture is telling us that was a prophecy, and also that prophecy originates from God, then that makes it authoritative.