Acts 23:6 BSB — MannaFest

Acts 23:6

Then Paul, knowing that some of them were Sadducees and others Pharisees, called out in the Sanhedrin, “Brothers, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee. It is because of my hope in the resurrection of the dead that I am on trial.”

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ASV

But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Brethren, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees: touching the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question.

KJV

But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee: of the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question.

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Commentary

3 voices

Tertullian

On the Resurrection of the Flesh (220)

You find Paul confessing his faith before the chief priests, under the shelter of the chief captain, among the Sadducees and the Pharisees: "Men and brethren," he says, "I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee; of the hope and resurrection of the dead I am now called in question by you," -referring, of course, to the nation's hope; in order to avoid, in his present condition, as an apparent transgressor of the law, being thought to approach to the Sadducees in opinion on the most important article of the faith-even the resurrection.

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The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee - Instead of Φαρισαιου, of a Pharisee, ABC, some others, with the Syriac and Vulgate, have Φαρισαιων, of the Pharisees; which, if acknowledged to be the genuine reading, would alter the sense thus, I am a Pharisee, and a disciple of the Pharisees, for so the word son is frequently understood. Of the hope and resurrection - Concerning the hope of the resurrection, the και, and, being here redundant; indeed, it is omitted by the Syriac, all the Arabic, and Ethiopic.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee--The true reading seems to be, "the son of Pharisees," that is, belonging to a family who from father to son had long been such. of the hope and resurrection of the dead--that is, not the vague hope of immortality, but the definite expectation of the resurrection.

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Original language & word study

32 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
Γνοὺς	Gnous	Having known	G1097 →
δὲ	de	then	G1161 →
ὁ	ho	<the>	G3588 →
Παῦλος	Paulos	Paul	G3972 →
ὅτι	hoti	that	G3754 →
τὸ	to	the	G3588 →
ἓν	hen	one	G1520 →
μέρος	meros	part	G3313 →
ἐστὶν	estin	consists	G1510 →
Σαδδουκαίων	Saddoukaiōn	of Sadducees	G4523 →
τὸ	to	<the>	G3588 →
δὲ	de	but	G1161 →
ἕτερον	heteron	the other	G2087 →
Φαρισαίων	Pharisaiōn	of Pharisees	G5330 →
ἔκραζεν	ekrazen	he was crying out	G2896 →
ἐν	en	in	G1722 →
τῷ	tō	the	G3588 →
συνεδρίῳ·	sunedriō	Council;	G4892 →
ἄνδρες	andres	Men	G435 →
ἀδελφοί,	adelphoi	brothers,	G80 →
ἐγὼ	egō	I myself	G1473 →
Φαρισαῖός	Pharisaios	a Pharisee	G5330 →
εἰμι,	eimi	am,	G1510 →
υἱὸς	huios	[the] son	G5207 →
Φαρισαίων·	Pharisaiōn	of Pharisees;	G5330 →
περὶ	peri	concerning	G4012 →
ἐλπίδος	elpidos	[the] hope	G1680 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
ἀναστάσεως	anastaseōs	resurrection	G386 →
νεκρῶν	nekrōn	of [the] dead	G3498 →
ἐγὼ	egō	I myself	G1473 →
κρίνομαι.¶	krinomai	am judged.	G2919 →

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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Acts 24:15
and I have the same hope in God that they themselves cherish, that there will be a resurrection of both the righteous and the wicked.
leads to
- Daniel 12:2
  And many who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, but others to shame and everlasting contempt.
- John 5:28–29
  Do not be amazed at this, for the hour is coming when all who are in their graves will hear His voice
- 1 Thessalonians 4:14–16
  For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, we also believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in Him.
Through
Philippians 3:5
circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin; a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee;
leads to
- 2 Corinthians 11:22
  Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they descendants of Abraham? So am I.
- Romans 11:1
  I ask then, did God reject His people? Certainly not! I am an Israelite myself, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.
Through
Acts 28:20
So for this reason I have called to see you and speak with you. It is because of the hope of Israel that I am bound with this chain.”
leads to
- 2 Timothy 2:9
  for which I suffer to the extent of being chained like a criminal. But the word of God cannot be chained!
- Ephesians 6:20
  for which I am an ambassador in chains. Pray that I may proclaim it fearlessly, as I should.
- Acts 26:6–7
  And now I stand on trial because of my hope in the promise that God made to our fathers,

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Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

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About Acts