Acts 26:8 · KJV
“Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead?”
— Acts 26:8
Unto which {promise} our twelve tribes, instantly serving {God} day and night, hope to come. For which hope's sake, king Agrippa, I am accused of the Jews. {day and night: Gr. night and day}
I verily thought with myself, that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
Acts 26 — Context
And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers:
7Unto which {promise} our twelve tribes, instantly serving {God} day and night, hope to come. For which hope's sake, king Agrippa, I am accused of the Jews. {day and night: Gr. night and day}
8Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead?
9I verily thought with myself, that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
10Which thing I also did in Jerusalem: and many of the saints did I shut up in prison, having received authority from the chief priests; and when they were put to death, I gave my voice against {them}.
Cross References
1 Corinthians 15:12-20
Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?
Acts 4:2
Being grieved that they taught the people, and preached through Jesus the resurrection from the dead.
Acts 17:31-32
Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by {that} man whom he hath ordained; {whereof} he hath given assurance unto all {men}, in that he hath raised him from the dead. {hath given...: or, offered faith}
Philippians 3:21
Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.
Acts 10:40-42
Him God raised up the third day, and shewed him openly;
Luke 18:27
And he said, The things which are impossible with men are possible with God.
John 5:28-29
Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice,
Acts 13:30-31
But God raised him from the dead:
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