Acts 23:8
For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, neither angel, nor spirit: but the Pharisees confess both.
Acts 23:8 in other translations
| BSB | For the Sadducees say that there is neither a resurrection, nor angels, nor spirits, but the Pharisees acknowledge them all. |
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| WEB | For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, nor angel, nor spirit; but the Pharisees confess all of these. |
| ASV | For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, neither angel, nor spirit; but the Pharisees confess both. |
| YLT | for Sadducees, indeed, say there is no rising again, nor messenger, nor spirit, but Pharisees confess both. |
| DARBY | For Sadducees say there is no resurrection, nor angel, nor spirit; but Pharisees confess both of them. |
| BBE | For the Sadducees say that there is no coming back from the dead, and no angels or spirits: but the Pharisees have belief in all these. |
| Webster | For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, neither angel, nor spirit: but the Pharisees confess both. |
What does Acts 23:8 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Acts 23:6-9
6-9. when Paul perceived--from the discussion which plainly had by this time arisen between the parties. that the one part were Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, he cried out--raising his voice above both parties. I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee--The true reading seems to be, "the son of Pharisees," that is, belonging to a family who from father to son had long been such. of the hope and resurrection of the…
Barnes' Notes
No resurrection. Of the dead. By this doctrine they also understood that there was no future state, and that the soul did not exist after death. Mt 22:23.
Neither angel. That there are no angels. They deny the existence of good or bad angels. Mt 3:7.
Nor spirit. Nor soul. That there was nothing but matter. They were materialists, and supposed that all the operations which we ascribe to mind, could be traced to some modification of matter. The Sadducees, says Josephus, (Jewish war, b. ii. chap. viii. &. 14,) "take away the belief of the immortal duration of the soul, and the punishments and rewards in hades." "The doctrine of the Sadducees is this," says he, (Ant: b. xviii, chap. i. & 4,) "that souls die with the bodies." The opinion that the soul is material, and that there is nothing but matter in the universe, has been held by many philosophers, ancient and modern, as well as by the Sadducees.
Confess both. Acknowledge, or receive both as true; i.e., that there is a future state, and that there are spirits distinct from matter, as angels, and the disembodied souls of men. The two points in dispute were,
(1,) whether the dead would be raised and exist in a future state; and, (2,) whether mind was distinct from matter. The Sudducees denied both, and the Pharisees believed both. Their belief of the latter point was, that spirits existed in two forms--that of angels, and that of souls of men distinct from the body.
(c) "Saducees say" Mt 22:23, Mk 12:18, Lk 20:27
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Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Acts 23:6-11
The Pharisees were correct in the faith of the Jewish church. The Sadducees were no friends to the Scripture or Divine revelation; they denied a future state; they had neither hope of eternal happiness, nor dread of eternal misery. When called in question for his being a Christian, Paul might truly say he was called in question for the hope of the resurrection of the dead. It was justifiable in him, by this…
Acts 23:8 in the original Greek
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Cross references for Acts 23:8
- Luke 20:27
Then came to him certain of the Sadducees, which deny that there is any resurrection; and they asked him,
- Matthew 22:23
The same day came to him the Sadducees, which say that there is no resurrection, and asked him,
- Mark 12:18
Then come unto him the Sadducees, which say there is no resurrection; and they asked him, saying,
- Acts 4:1
And as they spake unto the people, the priests, and the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees, came upon them,
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Context
- Acts 23:7
And when he had so said, there arose a dissension between the Pharisees and the Sadducees: and the multitude was divided.
- Acts 23:8
For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, neither angel, nor spirit: but the Pharisees confess both.
- Acts 23:9
And there arose a great cry: and the scribes that were of the Pharisees’ part arose, and strove, saying, We find no evil in this man: but if a spirit or an angel hath spoken to him, let us not fight against God.
Acts 23:8 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Porque los Saduceos dicen que no hay resurrección, ni ángel, ni espíritu; mas los Fariseos confiesan ambas cosas. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | car les sadducéens disent qu’il n’y a pas de résurrection, ni d’ange, ni d’esprit; mais les pharisiens confessent l’un et l’autre. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Denn die Sadducäer sagen, es gebe keine Auferstehung, noch Engel, noch Geist; die Pharisäer aber bekennen beides. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Sadducæi enim dicunt non esse resurrectionem, neque angelum, neque spiritum: pharisæi autem utraque confitentur. |