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Acts 17:32

James Moffatt - New Testament

But on hearing of a 'resurrection of dead men,' some sneered, while others said, "We will hear you again on that subject."

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[Move to the beginning of vs 23] Why should you consider it incredible that God raises the dead,

Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also came across him. Some said, "Whatever does the fellow mean with his scraps of learning'?" Others said, "He looks like a herald of foreign deities" (this was because he preached 'Jesus' and 'the Resurrection').

(He saith, I have heard you in the time of favour, and helped you on the day of salvation. Well, here is the time of favour, here is the day of salvation.)

The questions at issue referred to their own religion and to a certain Jesus who had died. Paul said he was alive.

but when he argued about morality, self-mastery, and the future judgment, Felix grew uneasy. "You may go for the present," he said; "when I can find a moment, I will send for you"

Some others sneered, "They are brim-full of new wine!"

We, for Christ's sake, are 'fools'; you in Christ are sensible. We are weak, you are strong; you are honoured, we are in disrepute.

inasmuch as he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world justly by a man whom he has destined for this. And he has given proof of this to all by raising him from the dead."

But they all alike proceeded to decline. The first said to him, 'I have bought a farm and I am obliged to go and look at it. Pray consider me excused.'

but our message is Christ the crucified — a stumbling-block to the Jews, 'sheer folly' to the Gentiles,

Look, you disdainful folk, wonder at this and perish for in your days I do a deed, a deed you will never believe, not though one were to explain it to you."

Let us go to him outside the camp, then, bearing his obloquy

others, again, had to experience scoffs and scourging, aye chains and imprisonment —

The soldiers made fun of him too by coming up and handing him vinegar,

Then Herod and his troops scoffed at him and made fun of him, and after arraying him in a bright robe he remitted him to Pilate.

Meantime the men who had Jesus in custody flogged him and made fun of him;

So Paul withdrew from them.

Now if we preach that Christ rose from the dead, how can certain individuals among you assert that 'there is no such thing as a resurrection of the dead'?




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