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- Acts
- Chapter 26
- Verse 8
Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead?
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Gill's Exposition
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,…
Barnes' Notes
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…
Adam Clarke
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 was an impossible…
Agrippa was the most honourable person in the assembly, having the title of king bestowed upon him, though otherwise having only the power of other governors under the emperor, and, though not here…
Cambridge Bible
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…
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