When Paul noticed that some were Sadducees and others were Pharisees, he called out in the council, “Brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. I am on trial concerning the hope of the resurrection of the dead.”
Acts 24:21 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 unless it was this one sentence that I called out while standing before them, ‘It is about the resurrection of the dead that I am on trial before you today.’ ” 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 noticed that some were Sadducees and others were Pharisees, he called out in the council, “Brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. I am on trial concerning the hope of the resurrection of the dead.”
I have a hope in God—a hope that they themselves also accept—that there will be a resurrection of both the righteous and the unrighteous.
For this reason therefore I asked to see you and speak with you, since it is for the sake of the hope of Israel that I am bound with this chain.”
much annoyed because they were teaching the people and proclaiming that in Jesus there is the resurrection of the dead.