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Acts 26:8
Acts 26:8 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead?
- New International Version (NIV)Why should any of you consider it incredible that God raises the dead?
- English Standard Version (ESV)Why is it thought incredible by any of you that God raises the dead?
- New King James Version (NKJV)Why should it be thought incredible by you that God raises the dead?
Context of Acts 26:8
6And now I stand to be judged because of the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers, 7to which our whole twelve tribes serving incessantly day and night hope to arrive; about which hope, O king, I am accused of [the] Jews. Why should it be judged a thing incredible in your sight if God raises the dead? 9I indeed myself thought that I ought to do much against the name of Jesus the Nazaraean. 10Which also I did in Jerusalem, and myself shut up in prisons many of the saints, having received the authority from the chief priests; and when they were put to death I gave my vote.
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τί ἄπιστον κρίνεται παρ᾽ ὑμῖν εἰ ὁ θεὸς νεκροὺς ἐγείρει;¶Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Acts 26:8
- Acts 4:2being distressed on account of their teaching the people and preaching by Jesus the resurrection from among [the] dead;
- Acts 10:40This [man] God raised up the third day and gave him to be openly seen,
- Acts 13:30but God raised him from among [the] dead,
- Acts 17:31because he has set a day in which he is going to judge the habitable earth in righteousness by [the] man whom he has appointed, giving the proof [of it] to all [in] having raised him from among [the] dead.
- Acts 25:19but had against him certain questions of their own system of worship, and concerning a certain Jesus who is dead, whom Paul affirmed to be living.
- Genesis 18:14Is [any] matter too wonderful for Jehovah? At the time appointed I will return to thee, at [this] time of the year, and Sarah shall have a son.
- Matthew 22:29And Jesus answering said to them, Ye err, not knowing the scriptures nor the power of God.
- Luke 1:37for nothing shall be impossible with God.
- Luke 18:27But he said, The things that are impossible with men are possible with God.
- John 5:28Wonder not at this, for an hour is coming in which all who are in the tombs shall hear his voice,
- 1 Corinthians 15:12Now if Christ is preached that he is raised from among [the] dead, how say some among you that there is not a resurrection of [those that are] dead?
- Philippians 3:21who shall transform our body of humiliation into conformity to his body of glory, according to the working of [the] power which he has even to subdue all things to himself.
Commentaries on Acts 26:8
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 8That God should raise the dead? - As Agrippa believed in the true God, and knew that one of his attributes was omnipotence, he could not believe that the resurrection of the dead was an impossible thing; and to this belief of his the apostle appeals; and the more especially, because the Sadducees denied the doctrine of the resurrection, though they professed to believe in the same God. Two attributes of God stood pledged to produce this resurrection: his…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 8Why should it be thought - The force of this question will be better seen by an exclamation point after why ́ ti“What! is it to be thought a thing incredible?” etc. It intimates surprise that it should be thought incredible, or implies that no reason could be given why such a doctrine should be unworthy of belief. A thing incredible - A doctrine which cannot be credited or believed. Why should it be regarded as absurd? With you - This is in the plural…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-23In his careful defense before King Agrippa, Paul argued that his message agreed fully with the Jewish faith. He began by respectfully recognizing Agrippa’s knowledge of Jewish matters (26:2–3). He then described his early life, his training in Judaism, and his membership in the Pharisees (a Jewish group known for strict obedience to the law; 26:4–5). Paul explained that the charges against him were only because he believed that God had fulfilled the…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 88. Why should it be thought a thing incredible ... that God should raise the dead?--rather, "Why is it judged a thing incredible if God raises the dead?" the case being viewed as an accomplished fact. No one dared to call in question the overwhelming evidence of the resurrection of Jesus, which proclaimed Him to be the Christ, the Son of God; the only way of getting rid of it, therefore, was to pronounce it incredible. But why, asks the apostle, is it so…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Acts 26
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Illustrated New Testament
- Burkitt’s Expository Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Family Bible Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- The People’s New Testament
- Robertson’s Word Pictures
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- The Fourfold Gospel and Commentary on Acts
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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