Acts 26:8

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Why, in your opinion, is it outside belief for God to make the dead come to life again?

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  • Acts 4:2 : 2 Being greatly troubled because they were teaching the people and preaching Jesus as an example of the coming back from the dead.
  • Acts 10:40-42 : 40 On the third day God gave him back to life, and let him be seen, 41 Not by all the people, but by witnesses marked out before by God, even by us, who took food and drink with him after he came back from the dead. 42 And he gave us orders to give news of this to the people, and to give public witness that this is he whom God has made judge of the living and the dead.
  • Acts 13:30-31 : 30 But God gave him back from the dead: 31 And for a number of days he was seen by those who came with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are now his witnesses before the people.
  • Acts 17:31-32 : 31 Because a day has been fixed in which all the world will be judged in righteousness by the man who has been marked out by him for this work; of which he has given a sign to all men by giving him back from the dead. 32 Now on hearing about the coming back from death, some of them made sport of it, but others said, Let us go more fully into this another time.
  • Acts 23:6 : 6 But when Paul saw that half of them were Sadducees and the rest Pharisees, he said in the Sanhedrin, Brothers, I am a Pharisee, and the son of Pharisees: I am here to be judged on the question of the hope of the coming back from the dead.
  • Acts 25:19 : 19 But had certain questions against him in connection with their religion, and about one Jesus, now dead, who, Paul said, was living.
  • 1 Cor 15:12-20 : 12 Now if the good news says that Christ came back from the dead, how do some of you say that there is no coming back from the dead? 13 But if there is no coming back from the dead, then Christ has not come back from the dead: 14 And if Christ did not come again from the dead, then our good news and your faith in it are of no effect. 15 Yes, and we are seen to be false witnesses of God; because we gave witness of God that by his power Christ came again from the dead: which is not true if there is no coming back from the dead. 16 For if it is not possible for the dead to come to life again, then Christ has not come to life again: 17 And if that is so, your faith is of no effect; you are still in your sins. 18 And, in addition, the dead in Christ have gone to destruction. 19 If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most unhappy. 20 But now Christ has truly come back from the dead, the first-fruits of those who are sleeping.
  • Phil 3:21 : 21 By whom this poor body of ours will be changed into the image of the body of his glory, in the measure of the working by which he is able to put all things under himself.
  • Gen 18:14 : 14 Is there any wonder which the Lord is not able to do? At the time I said, in the spring, I will come back to you, and Sarah will have a child.
  • Luke 18:27 : 27 But he said, Things which are not possible with man are possible with God.
  • John 5:28-29 : 28 Do not be surprised at this: for the time is coming when his voice will come to all who are in the place of the dead, 29 And they will come out; those who have done good, into the new life; and those who have done evil, to be judged.
  • Matt 22:29-32 : 29 But Jesus said to them in answer, You are in error, not having knowledge of the Writings, or of the power of God. 30 For when they come back from the dead there are no husbands and wives, but they are as the angels in heaven. 31 But about the dead coming back to life, have you no knowledge of what was said to you by God in the Writings: 32 I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead but of the living.
  • Luke 1:37 : 37 For there is nothing which God is not able to do.

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  • Acts 13:30
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    30 But God gave him back from the dead:

  • Acts 24:15
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    15 Hoping in God for that which they themselves are looking for, that there will be a coming back from the dead for upright men and wrongdoers.

  • Acts 24:21
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    21 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.

  • Acts 17:31-32
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    31 Because a day has been fixed in which all the world will be judged in righteousness by the man who has been marked out by him for this work; of which he has given a sign to all men by giving him back from the dead.

    32 Now on hearing about the coming back from death, some of them made sport of it, but others said, Let us go more fully into this another time.

  • 1 Cor 15:12
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    12 Now if the good news says that Christ came back from the dead, how do some of you say that there is no coming back from the dead?

  • Acts 13:37
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    37 But he, who was lifted up by God, did not see destruction.

  • John 5:28
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    28 Do not be surprised at this: for the time is coming when his voice will come to all who are in the place of the dead,

  • 1 Cor 15:15-16
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    15 Yes, and we are seen to be false witnesses of God; because we gave witness of God that by his power Christ came again from the dead: which is not true if there is no coming back from the dead.

    16 For if it is not possible for the dead to come to life again, then Christ has not come to life again:

  • Acts 26:27
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    27 King Agrippa, have you faith in the prophets? I am certain that you have.

  • Acts 25:19
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    19 But had certain questions against him in connection with their religion, and about one Jesus, now dead, who, Paul said, was living.

  • Acts 2:24
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    24 But God gave him back to life, having made him free from the pains of death because it was not possible for him to be overcome by it.

  • 1 Pet 1:21
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    21 Who through him have faith in God who took him up again from the dead into glory; so that your faith and hope might be in God.

  • Acts 2:32
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    32 This Jesus God has given back to life, of which we all are witnesses.

  • Matt 22:31
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    31 But about the dead coming back to life, have you no knowledge of what was said to you by God in the Writings:

  • 1 Cor 15:35
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    35 But someone will say, How do the dead come back? and with what sort of body do they come?

  • Acts 26:23
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    23 That the Christ would go through pain, and being the first to come back from the dead, would give light to the people and to the Gentiles.

  • Rom 4:24
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    24 But for us in addition, to whose account it will be put, if we have faith in him who made Jesus our Lord come back again from the dead,

  • Mark 12:26-27
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    26 But as to the dead coming back to life; have you not seen in the book of Moses, about the burning thorn-tree, how God said to him, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?

    27 He is not the God of the dead, but of the living: you are greatly in error.

  • Acts 4:10
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    10 Take note, all of you, and all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you put to death on the cross, whom God gave back from the dead, even through him is this man now before you completely well.

  • Acts 10:40-42
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    40 On the third day God gave him back to life, and let him be seen,

    41 Not by all the people, but by witnesses marked out before by God, even by us, who took food and drink with him after he came back from the dead.

    42 And he gave us orders to give news of this to the people, and to give public witness that this is he whom God has made judge of the living and the dead.

  • Acts 26:9
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    9 For I, truly, was of the opinion that it was right for me to do a number of things against the name of Jesus of Nazareth.

  • Acts 3:15
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    15 And put to death the Lord of life; whom God gave back from the dead; of which fact we are witnesses.

  • Acts 26:6-7
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    6 And now I am here to be judged because of the hope given by God's word to our fathers;

    7 For the effecting of which our twelve tribes have been working and waiting night and day with all their hearts. And in connection with this hope I am attacked by the Jews, O king!

  • Rom 8:11
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    11 But if the Spirit of him who made Jesus come again from the dead is in you, he who made Christ Jesus come again from the dead will in the same way, through his Spirit which is in you, give life to your bodies which now are under the power of death.

  • 1 Pet 4:5-6
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    68%

    5 But they will have to give an account of themselves to him who is ready to be the judge of the living and the dead.

    6 For this was the reason why the good news of Jesus was given even to the dead, so that they might be judged as men in the flesh, but might be living before God in the spirit.

  • Acts 17:3
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    3 Saying to them clearly and openly that Christ had to be put to death and come back to life again; and that this Jesus, whom, he said, I am preaching to you, is the Christ.

  • Luke 20:37-38
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    37 But even Moses made it clear that the dead come back to life, saying, in the story of the burning thorn-tree, The Lord, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.

    38 Now he is not the God of the dead but of the living: for all men are living to him.

  • Acts 26:19
    68%

    19 So, then, King Agrippa, I did not go against the vision from heaven;

  • Phil 3:11
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    11 If in any way I may have the reward of life from the dead.

  • Acts 5:30
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    30 The God of our fathers gave Jesus back to life, whom you had put to death, hanging him on a tree.

  • 1 Cor 15:29
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    29 Again, what will they do who are given baptism for the dead? if the dead do not come back at all, why are people given baptism for them?

  • John 11:25-26
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    25 Jesus said to her, I am myself that day and that life; he who has faith in me will have life even if he is dead;

    26 And no one who is living and has faith in me will ever see death. Is this your faith?

  • 2 Cor 4:14
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    14 Because we are certain that he who made the Lord Jesus come back from the dead, will do the same for us, and will give us a place in his glory with you.

  • Rom 10:7
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    7 Or, Who will go down into the deep? (that is, to make Christ come again from the dead:)

  • Ps 88:10
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    10 Will you do works of wonder for the dead? will the shades come back to give you praise? (Selah.)

  • 1 Cor 6:14
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    14 And God who made the Lord Jesus come back from the dead will do the same for us by his power.

  • Rom 4:17
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    17 (As it is said in the holy Writings, I have made you a father of a number of nations) before him in whom he had faith, that is, God, who gives life to the dead, and to whom the things which are not are as if they were.

  • 1 Thess 4:14
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    14 For if we have faith that Jesus underwent death and came back again, even so those who are sleeping will come again with him by God's power.

  • Acts 2:22
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    22 Men of Israel, give ear to these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a man who had the approval of God, as was made clear to you by the great works and signs and wonders which God did by him among you, as you yourselves have knowledge,

  • Luke 18:27
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    27 But he said, Things which are not possible with man are possible with God.

  • Rom 6:8
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    8 But if we are dead with Christ, we have faith that we will be living with him;