Acts 24:21

unless it is because of this one statement which I cried out, standing among them, ‘Concerning the resurrection of the dead I am being judged by you today.’ ” 1 Felix Procrastinates

English Majority Text (NT)

In The King James Version

Except it be for this one voice, that I cried standing among them, Touching the resurrection of the dead I am called in question by you this day.

In Context

20Or let these themselves say what wrong they found in me, when I stood before the council,

22And when he heard these things, Felix adjourned them, knowing more accurately the things concerning the Way, and said, “When Lysias the commander comes down, I will decide your case.”

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Cross References

Acts 23:6But when Paul perceived that one part was of the Sadducees and the other of the Pharisees, he cried out in the Sanhedrin, “Men and brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of a Pharisee; concerning the hope and resurrection of the dead I am being judged!”

Acts 28:20Therefore for this reason I have requested you, to see and to speak to you, for because of the hope of Israel I am wearing this chain.”

Matthew Henry on Acts 24:11-22

Paul's Third Defence. 10 Then Paul, after that the governor had beckoned unto him to speak, answered, Forasmuch as I know that thou hast been of many years a judge unto this nation, I do the more cheerfully answer for myself: 11 Because that thou mayest understand, that there are yet but twelve days since I went up to Jerusalem for to worship. 12 And they neither found me in the temple disputing with any man, neither raising up the people, neither in the synagogues, nor in the city: 13 Neither can they prove the… Read the whole commentary →

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