Acts 26:8

Why is it deemed with all of you a thing past belief if God raises the dead to life?

Weymouth NT (1912)

In The King James Version

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

In Context

7the promise which our twelve tribes, worshipping day and night with intense devotedness, hope to have made good to them. It is on the subject of this hope, Sir, that I am accused by the Jews.

9"I myself, however, thought it a duty to do many things in hostility to the name of Jesus, the Nazarene.

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Cross References

Luke 1:37For no promise from God will be impossible of fulfilment."

John 5:28Wonder not at this. For a time is coming when all who are in the graves will hear His voice and will come forth--

Acts 10:40That same Jesus God raised to life on the third day, and permitted Him to appear unmistakably,

Acts 17:31seeing that He has appointed a day on which, before long, He will judge the world in righteousness, through the instrumentality of a man whom He has pre-destined to this work, and has made the fact certain to every one by raising Him from the dead."

Acts 25:19But they quarrelled with him about certain matters connected with their own religion, and about one Jesus who had died, but--so Paul persistently maintained--is now 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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