Acts 26:8

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Acts 26:8

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

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Much annoyed because they were teaching the people, and because, through Jesus, they were preaching the resurrection from the dead.

This Jesus God raised on the third day, and enabled him to appear,

But God raised him from the dead;

Because he has fixed a day on which he intends to 'judge the world with justice,' by a man whom he has appointed--and of this he has given all men a pledge by raising this man from the dead."

But I found that there were certain questions in dispute between them about their own religion, and about some dead man called Jesus, whom Paul declared to be alive.

"Your mistake," replied Jesus, "is due to your ignorance of the Scriptures, and of the power of God.

For no promise from God shall fail to be fulfilled."

But Jesus said: "What is impossible with men is possible with God."

Do not wonder at this; for the time is coming when all who are in their graves will hear his voice,

Now, if it is proclaimed of Christ that he has been raised from the dead, how is it that some of you say that there is no such thing as a resurrection of the dead?

Who, by the exercise of his power to bring everything into subjection to himself, will make this body that we have in our humiliation like to that body which he has in his Glory.