"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 them to produce in their own minds. reason for their incredulity" (McGarvey pp. 251-252). "You" This statement was directed not only to Agrippa but also to the audience assembled. "If God can or does raise the dead, why should anyone not believe that he raised Jesus?" (Boles p. 401). "You is plural in the Greek; and this plural shows that Paul is not, at this moment, addressing Agrippa in particular, but has turned to the whole audience" (Reese p. 876). "If God doth raise the dead?" "The Pharisees would answer that they did not think it incredible; they ardently believed in God as the raiser of the dead. But Paul's point was that this belief had now been validated in that God had already raised up one man and had by that very fact demonstrated that man to be Israel's long-expected Messiah" (Bruce pp. 489-490).

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