Acts 23:8

For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, nor angels, nor a spirit: but the Pharisees confess all these.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

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 said this, the Pharisees and Sadducees fell upon one another, and the people were divided

9And there was great vociferation. And some Scribes of the party of the Pharisees rose up, and contended with them, and said. We have found nothing evil in this man: for if a spirit or an angel hath conversed with him, what is there in that?

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Cross References

Matthew 22:23The same day came Sadducees, and said to him: There is no life of the dead. And they questioned him,

Luke 20:27And some of the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came and questioned 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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