except for this one cry I shouted out while standing among them: ‘It is about the resurrection of the dead that today I am on trial before you.’”
But recognizing that one group was Sadducees and the other Pharisees, Paul began crying out in the Sanhedrin, “Brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees! I am on trial because of the hope of the resurrection of the dead!”
In God I have a hope—which these men also wait for—that there will surely be a resurrection of both the righteous and the unrighteous.
For this reason, therefore, I have requested to see you and to speak with you—since it is for the hope of Israel that I am bearing this chain.”
They were indignant because Peter and John were teaching the people and announcing in Yeshua the resurrection of the dead.