Acts 26:8 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁸Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead?

Acts 26:8 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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. …
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.

Topics

Atheism Attributes of God Body Dead (people)Decision God Graces Guidance

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-11)

Agrippa was the most honourable person in the assembly, having the title of king bestowed upon him, though otherwise having only the power of other governors under the emperor, and, though not here superior, yet senior, to Festus; and therefore, Festus having opened the cause, Agrippa, as the mouth of the court, intimates to Paul a licence given him to speak for himself, Acts 26:1. Paul was silent…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 8)

8. Why should it be thought a thing incredible ... that God should raise the dead?--rather, “Why is it judged a thing incredible if God raises the dead?” the case being viewed as an accomplished fact. No one dared to call in question the overwhelming evidence of the resurrection of Jesus, which proclaimed Him to be the Christ, the Son of God; the only way of getting rid of it, therefore, was to pr…