Acts 24:21 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

²¹ 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 versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²¹ 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

²¹ 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)

²¹ 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

²¹ 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

²¹ 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

²¹ 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.

Acts 24:21 Cross References

Acts 23:6

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.”

Acts 24:15

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.

Acts 28:20

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.”

Acts 4:2

and were greatly disturbed because they were teaching the people and proclaiming that Jesus had been raised from the dead.