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Acts 26:8 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" Why is it judged incredible with you if God does raise the dead? "
Acts 26:8
Verse in Context
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6 Now I stand here to be judged for the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers,
7 which our twelve tribes, earnestly serving night and day, hope to attain. Concerning this hope I am accused by the Jews, King Agrippa!
8 Why is it judged incredible with you if God does raise the dead?
9 “I myself most certainly thought that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
10 I also did this in Jerusalem. I both shut up many of the saints in prisons, having received authority from the chief priests; and when they were put to death I gave my vote against them.
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Acts 26:1
"Agrippa said to Paul, “You may speak for yourself.” Then Paul stretched out his hand, and made his defense."
Acts 26:2
"“I think myself happy, King Agrippa, that I am to make my defense before you today concerning all the things that I am accused by the Jews,"
Acts 26:3
"especially because you are expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews. Therefore I beg you to hear me patiently."
Acts 26:4
"“Indeed, all the Jews know my way of life from my youth up, which was from the beginning among my own nation and at Jerusalem;"
Acts 26:5
"having known me from the first, if they are willing to testify, that after the strictest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee."
Acts 26:6
"Now I stand here to be judged for the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers,"
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