Acts 24:21 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition) However, this one point, which I made when I stood among them [could have been objectionable]: I shouted, ‘The reason I am being charged before you today is [my preaching of] the resurrection of the dead.’” More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 except it be for this one voice, that I cried standing among them, Touching the resurrection of the dead I am called in question by you this day. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Unless it be this one sentence which I cried out as I stood among them, In regard to the resurrection of the dead I am indicted and on trial before you this day! American Standard Version (1901) except it be for this one voice, that I cried standing among them, Touching the resurrection of the dead I am called in question before you this day. Common English Bible Perhaps it concerns this one statement that I blurted out when I was with them: ‘I am on trial before you today because of the resurrection of the dead.’” Catholic Public Domain Version For while standing among them, I spoke out solely about this one matter: about the resurrection of the dead. It is about this that I am being judged today by you." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Except it be for this one voice only that I cried, standing among them, Concerning the resurrection of the dead am I judged this day by you. |
When Paul realized that part [of the Sanhedrin] were Sadducees and the other part were Pharisees, he lifted up his voice before the Council and said, “Brothers, I am a Pharisee and the son of a Pharisee. And it is concerning our hope that the dead will be raised that I have been brought to trial.”
I have a hope in God that there will be a resurrection both for those who have done right and those who have done wrong, just as the Jews themselves also expect.
It was for this reason that I requested to see you and talk with you, for I am wearing this chain because of the hope held by the Israelites.”
and were greatly disturbed because they were teaching the people and proclaiming that Jesus had been raised from the dead.