6But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee: of the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question.
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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.
And have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.
Which knew me from the beginning, if they would testify, that after the most straitest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee. …
Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee;
For this cause therefore have I called for you, to see you, and to speak with you: because that for the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 6-11)Many are the troubles of the righteous, but some way or other the Lord delivereth them out of them all . Paul owned he had experienced the truth of this in the persecutions he had undergone among the Gentiles (see 2 Tim. 3:11): Out of them all the Lord delivered me . And now he finds that he who has delivered does and will deliver. He that delivered him in the foregoing chapter from the tumult of…
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