Acts 26:8

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.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 th...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

(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 p...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

should it be thought . is it judged. Greek. krino , as in Acts 26:6 . incredible . Greek. apistos. Only occurs in Acts. Elsewhere translated "...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

− 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...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead? That God should raise the dead? - As Agrippa believed in the tr...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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 re...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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, tha...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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....
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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 t...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Paul Permitted to Speak for Himself Acts 26:1-11 Though Paul's defense before Agrippa is in substance the same as that from the castle stairs a...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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)...
James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

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 app...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

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? ] Phil...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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;) th...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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, es...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Paul's Fifth Defence. 1 Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Thou art permitted to speak...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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 wer...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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 n...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL REMARKS Acts 26:1 . Agrippa said unto Paul .—On this occasion Agrippa, not Festus, presided over the tribunal. The “stretching forth” o...
Sermon Bible Commentary

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Sermon Bible Commentary

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 hi...
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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 remarkab...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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 aud...
The Biblical Illustrator

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The Biblical Illustrator

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...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

v. 4. My manner of life from my youth, which was at the first among mine own nation at Jerusalem, know all the Jews;
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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, P...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 15:12-20 ; Acts 10:40-42 ; Acts 13:30 ; Acts 13:31 ; Acts 17:31 ; Acts 17:32 ; Acts 25:19 ; Acts 4:2 ; Genesis 18:14 ; John 5...

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Related Commentaries of Acts 26:8

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sermon Bible Commentary

Sermon Bible Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Acts 26:8