Acts 24:15

Acts 24:15 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)And have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.
• New International Version (NIV)and I have the same hope in God as these men themselves have, that there will be a resurrection of both the righteous and the wicked.
• English Standard Version (ESV)having a hope in God, which these men themselves accept, that there will be a resurrection of both the just and the unjust.
• New King James Version (NKJV)I have hope in God, which they themselves also accept, that there will be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and the unjust.

Context of Acts 24:15

13Nor can they prove to you the charges they now bring against me. 14“But this I confess to you, that according to the Way (which they call a sect), I worship the God of our fathers, believing everything written in the Torah and the Prophets. In God I have a hope—which these men also wait for—that there will surely be a resurrection of both the righteous and the unrighteous. 16“Therefore I do my best always to have a clear conscience before both God and men. 17Now after several years, I came to bring tzadakah to my country for the poor and to present offerings.

Acts 24:15 word by word

ἐλπίδα ἔχων εἰς τὸν θεὸν ἣν καὶ αὐτοὶ οὗτοι προσδέχονται, ἀνάστασιν μέλλειν ἔσεσθαι δικαίων τε καὶ ἀδίκων·Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• And haveἔχωechō · to have/beG2192
• hopeἐλπίςelpis · hopeG1680
• towardεἰςeis · towardG1519
• Godὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
• Godθεόςtheos · GodG2316
• whichὅςhos hē ho · whichG3739
• theyαὐτόςautos · it/s/heG846
• themselvesοὗτοςhoutos houtoi hautē hautai · this/he/she/itG3778
• alsoκαίkai · andG2532
• allowπροσδέχομαιprosdechomai · to wait for/welcomeG4327
• that there shallμέλλωmellō · to ensueG3195
• beεἰμίeimi · to beG1510
• a resurrectionἀνάστασιςanastasis · resurrectionG386
• of the deadνεκρόςnekros · deadG3498
• bothτεte · and/bothG5037
• of the justδίκαιοςdikaios · justG1342
• unjustἄδικοςadikos · unjustG94

Cross-references for Acts 24:15

• Acts 24:21except for this one cry I shouted out while standing among them: ‘It is about the resurrection of the dead that today I am on trial before you.’”
• Acts 26:6“Yet now I stand here being judged for the hope in the promise made by God to our fathers.
• Acts 28:20For this reason, therefore, I have requested to see you and to speak with you—since it is for the hope of Israel that I am bearing this chain.”
• Acts 23:6But recognizing that one group was Sadducees and the other Pharisees, Paul began crying out in the Sanhedrin, “Brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees! I am on trial because of the hope of the resurrection of the dead!”
• Job 19:25“Yet I know that my Redeemer lives, and in the end, He will stand on earth.
• Daniel 12:2Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake—some to everlasting life, and others to shame and everlasting contempt.
• Matthew 22:31But concerning the resurrection of the dead, haven’t you read what was spoken to you by God, saying,
• John 5:28“Do not be amazed at this, for an hour is coming when all who are in their graves will hear His voice
• 1 Corinthians 15:12Now if Messiah is proclaimed—that He has been raised from the dead—how can some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?
• Philippians 3:21He will transform this humble body of ours into the likeness of His glorious body, through the power that enables Him even to put all things in subjection to Himself.
• 1 Thessalonians 4:14For if we believe that Yeshua died and rose again, so with Him God will also bring those who have fallen asleep in Yeshua.
• Revelation 20:6How fortunate and holy is the one who has a share in the first resurrection! Over such the second death has no authority, but they shall be kohanim of God and the Messiah, and they shall reign with Him for a thousand years.

Commentaries on Acts 24:15

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 15And have hope toward God, etc. - I not only do not hold any thing by which the general creed of this people might be altered, in reference to the present state; but, also, I hold nothing different from their belief in reference to a future state; for, if I maintain the doctrine of the resurrection of the dead, it is what themselves allow.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 15And have hope toward God - Having a hope of the resurrection of the dead, which arises from the promises of God. Which they themselves … - That is, the Pharisees. Perhaps he designated in this remark the Pharisees who were present. He held nothing in this great cardinal point which they did not also hold. For the reasons why he introduced this point so prominently, and the success of thus introducing it, see the notes on Acts 23:1-9. Both of the just and…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 10-21Verses 10-21 Paul gives a just account of himself, which clears him from crime, and likewise shows the true reason of the violence against him. Let us never be driven from any good way by its having an ill name. It is very comfortable, in worshipping God, to look to him as the God of our fathers, and to set up no other rule of faith or practice but the Scriptures. This shows there will be a resurrection to a final judgment. Prophets and their doctrines…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 15At the final judgment (the time when God judges all people), God will raise both the righteous (those who follow him) and the unrighteous (those who do not). Paul kept this coming meeting with God in mind at all times (24:16). Felix became afraid when Paul spoke about “the coming judgment” in a later conversation (24:25).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 14-1514-15. But this I confess to thee--in which Felix would see no crime. that after the way they call heresy--literally, and better, "a sect." so worship I the God of my fathers--the ancestral God. Two arguments are contained here: (1) Our nation is divided into what they call sects--the sect of the Pharisees, and that of the Sadducees--all the difference between them and me is, that I belong to neither of these, but to another sect, or religious section of…Read the comment

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Commentaries on Acts 24

• 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