8Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead?
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead? …
Being grieved that they taught the people, and preached through Jesus the resurrection from the dead.
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. …
Him God raised up the third day, and shewed him openly; …
And he said, The things which are impossible with men are possible with God.
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 silen…
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