Acts 24:21
Except it be for this one voice, that I cried standing among them, Touching the resurrection of the dead I am called in question by you this day.
Acts 24:21 in other translations
| BSB | unless it was this one thing I called out as I stood in their presence: ‘It is concerning the resurrection of the dead that I am on trial before you today.’” |
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| WEB | unless it is for this one thing that I cried standing among them, ‘Concerning the resurrection of the dead I am being judged before you today!’” |
| ASV | except it be for this one voice, that I cried standing among them, Touching the resurrection of the dead I am called in question before you this day. |
| YLT | except concerning this one voice, in which I cried, standing among them--Concerning a rising again of the dead I am judged to-day by you.' |
| DARBY | other than concerning this one voice which I cried standing amongst them: I am judged this day by you touching the resurrection of the dead. |
| BBE | But only this one thing which I said among them in a loud voice, I am this day being judged on the question of the coming back from the dead. |
| Webster | Except it is for this one voice, that I cried, standing among them, Concerning the resurrection of the dead I am called in question by you this day. |
What does Acts 24:21 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Acts 24:18-21
18-21. found me purified in the temple--not polluting it, therefore, by my own presence, and neither gathering a crowd nor raising a stir: If then these Asiatic Jews have any charge to bring against me in justification of their arrest of me, why are they not here to substantiate it?
Barnes' Notes
(1.) Paul wished to fix their attention on the main thing which he had said before the council.
(2.) It was true, as has been shown on the passage, (Acts 23:1-10), that this was the principal doctrine which Paul had been defending.
(3.) If they were prepared to witness against him for holding and teaching the resurrection of the dead as a false or evil doctrine, he called on them to do it. As this had been the only thing which they had witnessed before the council, he calls on them to testify to what they knew only, and to show, if they could, that this was wrong.
Touching the resurrection, etc. Respecting the resurrection, Acts 23:6.
(*) "one voice" "declaration" (+) "cried" "proclaimed"
Albert Barnes, 1834 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Acts 24:10-21
Paul gives a just account of himself, which clears him from crime, and likewise shows the true reason of the violence against him. Let us never be driven from any good way by its having an ill name. It is very comfortable, in worshipping God, to look to him as the God of our fathers, and to set up no other rule of faith or practice but the Scriptures. This shows there will be a resurrection to a final judgment…
Acts 24:21 in the original Greek
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Cross references for Acts 24:21
- Acts 23:6
But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee: of the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question.
- Acts 26:6-8
And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers: Unto which promise our twelve tribes, instantly serving God day and night, hope to come. For which hope’s sake, king Agrippa, I am accused of the Jews. Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead?
- Acts 4:2
Being grieved that they taught the people, and preached through Jesus the resurrection from the dead.
- Acts 28:20
For this cause therefore have I called for you, to see you, and to speak with you: because that for the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain.
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Context
- Acts 24:20
Or else let these same here say, if they have found any evil doing in me, while I stood before the council,
- Acts 24:21
Except it be for this one voice, that I cried standing among them, Touching the resurrection of the dead I am called in question by you this day.
- Acts 24:22
And when Felix heard these things, having more perfect knowledge of that way, he deferred them, and said, When Lysias the chief captain shall come down, I will know the uttermost of your matter.
Acts 24:21 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Si no sea que, estando entre ellos prorrumpí en alta voz: Acerca de la resurrección de los muertos soy hoy juzgado de vosotros. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | si ce n’est ce seul cri que je fis entendre, étant au milieu d’eux: C’est pour la résurrection des morts que je suis aujourd’hui mis en jugement par vous. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | es sei denn wegen dieses einen Ausrufs, den ich tat, als ich unter ihnen stand: Wegen der Auferstehung der Toten werde ich heute von euch gerichtet. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | nisi de una hac solummodo voce qua clamavi inter eos stans: Quoniam de resurrectione mortuorum ego judicor hodie a vobis. |