Acts 23:8 BSB — MannaFest

Acts 23:8

For the Sadducees say that there is neither a resurrection, nor angels, nor spirits, but the Pharisees acknowledge them all.

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ASV

For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, neither angel, nor spirit; but the Pharisees confess both.

KJV

For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, neither angel, nor spirit: but the Pharisees confess both.

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Commentary

3 voices

Tertullian

Pseudo-Tertullian Against All Heresies (220)

Of the Sadducees I am silent, who, springing from the root of this error, had the hardihood to adjoin to this heresy the denial likewise of the resurrection of the flesh. The Pharisees I pretermit, who were "divided" from the Jews by their superimposing of certain additaments to the law, which fact likewise made them worthy of receiving this very name; and, together with them, the Herodians likewise, who said that Herod was Christ.

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The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

The Sadducees say that there is no resurrection - It is strange, since these denied a future state, that they observed the ordinances of the law; for they also believed the five books of Moses to be a revelation from God: yet they had nothing in view but temporal good; and they understood the promises in the law as referring to these things alone. In order, therefore, to procure them, they watched, fasted, prayed, etc., and all this they did that they might obtain happiness in the present life.

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

16 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
Σαδδουκαῖοι	Saddoukaioi	Sadducees	G4523 →
μὲν	men	indeed	G3303 →
γὰρ	gar	for	G1063 →
λέγουσιν	legousin	say	G3004 →
μὴ	mē	not	G3361 →
εἶναι	einai	there to be	G1511 →
ἀνάστασιν	anastasin	resurrection	G386 →
μήτε	mēte	neither [to be]	G3383 →
ἄγγελον	angelon	angel	G32 →
μήτε	mēte	nor [to be]	G3383 →
πνεῦμα·	pneuma	spirit;	G4151 →
Φαρισαῖοι	Pharisaioi	Pharisees	G5330 →
δὲ	de	however	G1161 →
ὁμολογοῦσιν	homologousin	confess	G3670 →
τὰ	ta	<the>	G3588 →
ἀμφότερα.¶	amphotera	both.	G297 →

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The walk8

Where the connections lead

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
Luke 20:27
Then some of the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to question Him.
leads to
- Acts 4:1–2
  While Peter and John were speaking to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple guard and the Sadducees came up to them,
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Matthew 22:23–33
  That same day the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to Jesus and questioned Him.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Mark 12:18–27
  Then the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to Jesus and questioned Him:
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Acts 23:6–8
  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…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- 1 Corinthians 15:12
  But if it is preached that Christ has been raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?
Through
Acts 4:1
While Peter and John were speaking to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple guard and the Sadducees came up to them,
leads to
- Acts 23:6–9
  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…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Luke 22:4
  And Judas went to discuss with the chief priests and temple officers how he might betray Jesus to them.
- Acts 6:12
  So they stirred up the people, elders, and scribes and confronted Stephen. They seized him and brought him before the Sanhedrin,

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Where the connections lead

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The walk

Related verses

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About Acts