"Other than for this one statement which. shouted out while standing among them, 'For the resurrection of the dead. am on trial before you today'" Once more the Holy Spirit cleverly pricks the conscience of the Sadducees. Notice that Paul had to shout just to get this statement out; this infers that the Council was already in an uproar before he made the statement. Hence, this is the crux of the matter, the teaching concerning the resurrection. If there was anything that had caused any additional uproar it was this statement, but many Jews would have admitted that any believing Jew should have embraced such. statement.

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Old Testament