21Except 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.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
But 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.
Being grieved that they taught the people, and preached through Jesus the resurrection from the dead.
And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers: …
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.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 10-21)We have here Paul’s defence of himself, in answer to Tertullus’s charge, and there appears in it a great deal of the spirit of wisdom and holiness, and an accomplishment of Christ’s promise to his followers that when they were before governors and kings, for his sake, it should be given them in that same hour what they should speak . Though Tertullus had said a great many provoking things, yet Pau…
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