unless it was my one outcry as I stood among them, that ‘I am on trial before you today for the resurrection of the dead.’”
Paul was aware that some were Sadducees and some Pharisees, so he called out before the Sanhedrin, “My brothers, I am a Pharisee, the son of Pharisees; [I] am on trial for hope in the resurrection of the dead.”
I have the same hope in God as they themselves have that there will be a resurrection of the righteous and the unrighteous.
This is the reason, then, I have requested to see you and to speak with you, for it is on account of the hope of Israel that I wear these chains.”
disturbed that they were teaching the people and proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection of the dead.