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Acts 24:21 KJV
Acts · chapter 24 · verse 21
Except 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.Acts 24:21 · King James Version
Acts 24:21 in context
19Who ought to have been here before thee, and object, if they had ought against me.
20Or else let these same here say, if they have found any evil doing in me, while I stood before the council,
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.
22And when Felix heard these things, having more perfect knowledge of that way, he deferred them, and said, When Lysias the chief captain shall come down, I will know the uttermost of your matter.
23And he commanded a centurion to keep Paul, and to let him have liberty, and that he should forbid none of his acquaintance to minister or come unto him.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- resurrectionanastasisa raising up, rising , a rising from the dead, that of Christ, that of all men at the end…G386 →
- standinghistēmito cause or make to stand, to place, put, set, to bid to stand by, [set up], in the…G2476 →
- Touchinghotithat, because, sinceG3754 →
- Touchingperiabout, concerning, on account of, because of, around, nearG4012 →
- questionkrinōto separate, put asunder, to pick out, select, choose, to approve, esteem, to prefer, to…G2919 →
- Exceptēeither, or, thanG2228 →
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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…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 10-21