Acts 23:8

For Sadducees say there is no resurrection, nor angel, nor spirit; but Pharisees confess both of them.

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, neither angel, nor spirit: but the Pharisees confess both.

In Context

7And when he had spoken this, there was a tumult of the Pharisees and the Sadducees, and the multitude was divided.

9And there was a great clamour, and the scribes of the Pharisees' part rising up contended, saying, We find nothing evil in this man; and if a spirit has spoken to him, or an angel

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Cross References

Matthew 22:23On that day came to him Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection; and they demanded of him,

Luke 20:27And some of the Sadducees, who deny that there is any resurrection, coming up [to him],

Matthew Henry on Acts 23:7-12

Paul's Second Defence. 6 But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee: of the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question. 7 And when he had so said, there arose a dissension between the Pharisees and the Sadducees: and the multitude was divided. 8 For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, neither angel, nor spirit: but the Pharisees confess both. 9 And there arose a… Read the whole commentary →

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