Acts 26:8

Why is it considered such an unbelievable thing by you people if God raises the dead?

English Majority Text (NT)

In The King James Version

Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead?

In Context

7a promise to which our twelve tribes, as they earnestly serve God night and day, hope to attain. Concerning which hope I am accused by the Jews, King Agrippa.

9“Therefore I thought in myself that it was necessary to do many hostile things against the name of Jesus the Nazarene;

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Cross References

Luke 1:37For with God nothing shall be impossible.”

John 5:28Do not marvel at this; for an hour is coming in which all those in the tombs will hear His voice

Acts 10:40This Jesus God raised up on the third day, and caused Him to be seen,

Acts 17:31because He has appointed a day in which He is going to judge the world in righteousness by the Man whom He has appointed, having given proof to all, by raising Him from the dead.”

Acts 25:19but had some questions against him about their own religion and about a certain Jesus, who had died, whom Paul professed to be alive.

Matthew Henry on Acts 26:2-12

Paul's Fifth Defence. 1 Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Thou art permitted to speak for thyself. Then Paul stretched forth the hand, and answered for himself: 2 I think myself happy, king Agrippa, because I shall answer for myself this day before thee touching all the things whereof I am accused of the Jews: 3 Especially because I know thee to be expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews: wherefore I beseech thee to hear me patiently. 4 My manner of life from my youth, which was at the first among… Read the whole commentary →

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