Why should it be thought a thing incredible … that God, &c. More literally (with Rev. Ver.) "Why is it judged incredible with you if God doth raise the dead." The last clause is not to be understood hypothetically, but "If God doth, as he hath done in the case of Jesus." So that it is equivalent to "Why should you not believe that Jesus has been raised from the dead?"
Verse Acts 26:8. _THAT GOD SHOULD RAISE THE DEAD?_] As Agrippa believed in the true God, and knew that one of his attributes was _omnipotence_, he could not believe that the resurrection of the dead...
WHY SHOULD IT BE THOUGHT ... - The force of this question will be better seen by an exclamation point after why τί ti. “What! is it to be thought a thing incredible?” etc. It intimates surprise that...
CHAPTER 26 __ 1. The Address of the Apostle Paul (Acts 26:2). 2. The Interruption by Festus and the Appeal to the King (Acts 26:24). 3. The Verdict (Acts 26:30). The opening words of the Apostle a...
PAUL SPEAKS BEFORE AGRIPPA. It is Agrippa the vassal king, not Festus the representative of the sovereign power, who calls on Paul to speak, and to whom Paul addresses himself throughout, even after t...
Agrippa said to Paul, "You have permission to speak on your own behalf." Then Paul stretched out his hand and began his defence. "With regard to the charges made against me by the Jews, King Agrippa,...
THE DEFENCE OF A CHANGED MAN (Acts 26:1-11)...
SHOULD IT BE THOUGHT. is it judged. Greek. _krino_, as in Acts 26:6. INCREDIBLE. Greek. _apistos._ Only occurs in Acts. Elsewhere translated "faithless", "unbelieving", &c. THAT. if. App-118. SHOUL...
ΤΊ ἌΠΙΣΤΟΝ ΚΡΊΝΕΤΑΙ ΠΑΡ' ὙΜΙ͂Ν ΕἸ Ὁ ΘΕῸΣ ΝΕΚΡΟῪΣ ἘΓΕΊΡΕΙ; _why is it judged incredible with you if God doth raise the dead?_ The last clause is not to be understood hypothetically, but ‘If God doth, a...
Acts 26:1-23. PAUL’S DEFENCE BEFORE AGRIPPA...
_PAUL HUMBLY ADDRESSED AGRIPPA ACTS 26:1-11:_ Agrippa gave Paul permission to speak for himself. As Paul began his defense he stretched forth his hand. This action was designed to gain their attention...
ΆΠΙΣΤΟΣ (G571) невероятный, немыелимый. Двойной _асс._ после гл. рассмотрения (BD, 85-87; RG, 479-84). ΚΡΊΝΕΤΑΙ _praes. ind. pass. от_ ΚΡΊΝΩ, _см._ Acts 26:6. ΕΊ (G1487) если, чтобы. Вводит _conj._...
WHY SHOULD IT BE THOUGHT A THING INCREDIBLE, &C.— Beza, with the Greek scholiast, would place a mark of interrogation after the word τι, and read it, _What? is it thought incredible,_ &c.? which is in...
f. Paul's defense before King Agrippa. Acts 25:13 bActs 26:32. Acts 25:13 Now when certain days were passed, Agrippa the king and Bernice arrived at Caesarea, and saluted Festus....
See notes on verse 4...
_ Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead? _ Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead? - rather, 'Why is it ju...
1 King Agrippa was a notable figure throughout the closing period of Jewish national life. He was the last prince of the Herodian line. Unlike the Roman governors, who were frequently replaced and mos...
DEFENCE BEFORE AGRIPPA 1-32. St. Paul before Agrippa. This speech, though in form a defence to the Jews, is really intended by St. Luke to be St. Paul's defence to the world—an apology for his whole...
GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE ACTS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 26 PAUL SPEAKS TO KING AGRIPPA, 26:1-11 V1 Agrippa told Paul, ‘You may now speak for yourself.’ Paul waved his hand. He said, V2 ‘King Agrippa,...
WHY SHOULD IT BE THOUGHT A THING INCREDIBLE...? — Some MSS. give a punctuation which alters the structure of the sentence: _What! is it thought a thing incredible_... _?_ The appeal is made to Agrippa...
R.V. gives more clearly the significance of the original, “Why is it judged incredible with you, if God (as He does) raises the dead?” εἰ with indicative assumes that the hypothesis is true, Vulgate “...
PAUL PERMITTED TO SPEAK FOR HIMSELF Acts 26:1 Though Paul's defense before Agrippa is in substance the same as that from the castle stairs at Jerusalem, it differs in the extended description of the...
Agrippa intimated to Paul that he might speak, and the apostle spent a moment in introductory words, and then uttered his great apologia, in which a twofold purpose is evident, first, his own defense,...
Paul Tells Agrippa About his Early Life Though Festus had the full authority of Rome behind him, it was Agrippa who told Paul he was permitted to speak. Paul stretched out his hand and began by sayin...
(4) Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead? (4) He proves the resurrection of the dead, first by the power of God, then by the resurrection of Christ, of...
He speaks now to the Sadducees, who denied the resurrection. Can you say it is impossible for Him, whom you all allow to be omnipotent, to raise any of the dead to life? Is it not easier to reanimate...
Especially because I know thee to be expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews: wherefore I beseech thee to hear me patiently. (4) My manner of life from my youth, which was at the...
The closing Chapter s from 21 to the end of the book are devoted to an episode full of interest and profit Paul's course from Jerusalem to Rome. And here we find ourselves in an atmosphere considerabl...
_ST. PAUL AND THE RESURRECTION_ ‘Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead?’ Acts 26:8 St. Paul’s appeal to Cæsar placed Festus in a difficulty. How could...
− 8._Why should _I do not doubt but that he proved that both by reason, and also by testimonies of Scripture, which he taught concerning the resurrection and the heavenly life. But for good causes dot...
Paul's address to king Agrippa furnishes us with the most complete picture of the entire position of the apostle, as he himself looked at it when his long service and the light of the Holy Ghost illum...
WHY SHOULD IT BE THOUGHT A THING INCREDIBLE WITH YOU,.... You Heathens and Sadducees; for the doctrine of the resurrection of the dead was thought an incredible doctrine by the Heathens in general, an...
Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead? Ver. 8. _Why should it be thought a thing incredible?_] Philosophy indeed is against it. _A privatione ad habitum...
_Why should it be thought a thing incredible_ (It was thought so by Festus, Acts 25:19, to whom Paul answers as if he had heard him discourse;) _that God_ A Being of infinite perfections, and the orig...
INCREDIBLE; not to be believed; absurd, or wanting evidence....
WHY SHOULD IT BE THOUGHT A THING INCREDIBLE WITH YOU THAT GOD SHOULD RAISE THE DEAD? Early in life, at the beginning of the period of his youth, Paul had come to Jerusalem. And his manner of living, t...
v. 4. MY MANNER OF LIFE FROM MY YOUTH, WHICH WAS AT THE FIRST AMONG MINE OWN NATION AT JERUSALEM, KNOW ALL THE JEWS;...
At Agrippa's invitation to him to speak, Paul is fully prepared. He expresses his happiness at being privileged to answer for himself to the king, especially because he knew Agrippa to be an expert in...
WHY SHOULD IT BE THOUGHT INCREDIBLE BY YOU THAT GOD RAISES THE DEAD? 1. If you believe in God, what is so difficult about resurrection? If God can create the world; If God can create man in the Garde...
"Why is it judged incredible with you, if God doth raise the dead?"Judged incredible" "Why do you Jews of all people find it impossible to believe" (Rieu). "The purpose of the demand was to challenge...
1-11 Christianity teaches us to give a reason of the hope that is in us, and also to give honour to whom honour is due, without flattery or fear of man. Agrippa was well versed in the Scriptures of t...
This St. Paul seems to have spoken in regard of Festus, and many others there present, who were heathens; or to any of the Sadducees, if any such were amongst them: as for Agrippa, He believed the pro...
Acts 26:8 Why G5101 thought G2919 (G5743) incredible G571 by G3844 you G5213 that G1487 God G2316 raises...
And now I stand here to be judged for the hope of the promise made of God to our fathers, to which promise our twelve tribes, earnestly serving God night and day, hope to attain. And concerning this h...
_Paul's Defence of Christianity before King Agrippa, his Sister, and the Procurator Festus,_ 1-23. This famous _apologia_ of St. Paul consists of four divisions. The first, Acts 26:2-3, consists of a...
Acts 26:8. WHY SHOULD IT HE THOUGHT A THING INCREDIBLE WITH YOU, THAT GOD SHOULD RAISE THE DEAD? First, on the punctuation of this verse. Some MSS. write the words, ‘What? Is it to be thought incredib...
INCREDIBLE WITH YOU (απιστον παρ' υμιν). This old word απιστον (α privative and πιστος) means either unfaithful (Luke 12:46), unbelieving (John 20:27), or unbelievable as here). Paul turns suddenly...
Acts 26 St. Paul's Defence before Agrippa. Observe: I. What is the central truth of the Christian system. It is a very suggestive fact that Festus had got hold of the kernel of the whole subject, as...
Acts 26:8 The Resurrection a Fact of History. I The fact that Christ has risen from the dead is the assumption on which St. Paul builds up all his teaching on the subject of the resurrection. It is t...
Acts 26:1. _Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Thou art permitted to speak for thyself. Then Paul stretched forth the hand, and answered for himself:_ I do not suppose Agrippa imagined that Paul would take...
Three times we have in Holy Writ a graphic report of the conversion of Paul. This may be accounted for partly from its being one of the most remarkable events of early sacred history, Paul having had...
CONTENTS: Paul's defense before Agrippa. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Paul, Agrippa, Satan, Festus, Bernice, Caesar. CONCLUSION: When God's servant is given a chance to speak for himself, it is well if h...
Acts 26:1. _Then Paul stretched forth the hand,_ the usual signal to gain attention; it indicates presence of mind in the speaker, and that his auditory is large. Though the notice was short, the cour...
ALL THE JEWS KNOW HOW I HAVE LIVED. His life had been lived in agreement with the Law. They knew about his education in Jerusalem, and that he lived as a Pharisee, the strictest of the Jewish sects [t...
_Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Thou art permitted to speak for thyself._ PAUL BEFORE AGRIPPA Here is all that Christianity ever asked for: an opportunity to speak for itself; and its answer is the one...
_Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you that God should raise the dead?_ WHY IS THE RESURRECTION INCREDIBLE I. Incredulity has many causes and justifies itself with many reasons. It has...
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 26:1. AGRIPPA SAID UNTO PAUL.—On this occasion Agrippa, not Festus, presided over the tribunal. The “stretching forth” of the hand was the gesture of an orator preparing himsel...
EXPOSITION ACTS 26:1 And for _then, _A.V.; _his _for _the, _A.V.; _made his _defense_ _for _answered for himself, _A.V. AGRIPPA SAID. It was by the courtesy of Festus that Agrippa thus took the chief...
Let's open our Bibles to the twenty-sixth chapter of Acts. Paul was rescued by Lysias, the captain of the Roman guard from the mob that was attempting to beat him to death in Jerusalem on the temple m...
1 Corinthians 15:12; Acts 10:40; Acts 13:30; Acts 13:31; Acts 17:31
That God should raise the dead [ε ι ο θ ε ο ς ν ε κ ρ ο υ ς ε γ ε ι ρ ε ι]. Much better, as Rev., if God raises the dead. He does not put it as a supposition, but as a fact : if God raises the dead, a...
Is it judged by you an incredible thing — It was by Festus, Acts 25:19, to whom Paul answers as if he had heard him discourse....
As if the apostle had said, "The great point in controversy between me and you is this, Whether the dead in general shall arise? and, Whether Christ in particular be risen from the dead? Now why shoul...