Acts 17:32

World English Bible (2000)

Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked; but others said, "We want to hear you again concerning this."

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  • Acts 17:18 : 18 Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also were conversing with him. Some said, "What does this babbler want to say?" Others said, "He seems to be advocating foreign deities," because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.
  • Acts 24:25 : 25 As he reasoned about righteousness, self-control, and the judgment to come, Felix was terrified, and answered, "Go your way for this time, and when it is convenient for me, I will summon you."
  • Acts 2:13 : 13 Others, mocking, said, "They are filled with new wine."
  • Acts 26:8 : 8 Why is it judged incredible with you, if God does raise the dead?
  • Acts 26:24-25 : 24 As he thus made his defense, Festus said with a loud voice, "Paul, you are crazy! Your great learning is driving you insane!" 25 But he said, "I am not crazy, most excellent Festus, but boldly declare words of truth and reasonableness.
  • 2 Chr 36:16 : 16 but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until the wrath of Yahweh arose against his people, until there was no remedy.
  • Luke 14:18 : 18 They all as one began to make excuses. "The first said to him, 'I have bought a field, and I must go and see it. Please have me excused.'
  • Acts 25:19 : 19 but had certain questions against him about their own religion, and about one Jesus, who was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive.
  • Acts 17:31 : 31 because he has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained; of which he has given assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the dead."
  • 1 Cor 4:10 : 10 We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You have honor, but we have dishonor.
  • 2 Cor 6:2 : 2 for he says, "At an acceptable time I listened to you, in a day of salvation I helped you." Behold, now is the acceptable time. Behold, now is the day of salvation.
  • Heb 3:7-8 : 7 Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, "Today if you will hear his voice, 8 don't harden your hearts, as in the rebellion, like as in the day of the trial in the wilderness,
  • Heb 11:36 : 36 Others were tried by mocking and scourging, yes, moreover by bonds and imprisonment.
  • Heb 13:13 : 13 Let us therefore go out to him outside of the camp, bearing his reproach.
  • Luke 22:63 : 63 The men who held Jesus mocked him and beat him.
  • Luke 23:11 : 11 Herod with his soldiers humiliated him and mocked him. Dressing him in luxurious clothing, they sent him back to Pilate.
  • Luke 23:36 : 36 The soldiers also mocked him, coming to him and offering him vinegar,
  • Acts 13:41 : 41 'Behold, you scoffers, and wonder, and perish; for I work a work in your days, a work which you will in no way believe, if one declares it to you.'"
  • Gen 19:14 : 14 Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry his daughters, and said, "Get up! Get out of this place, for Yahweh will destroy the city." But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be joking.
  • 2 Chr 30:9-9 : 9 For if you turn again to Yahweh, your brothers and your children shall find compassion before those who led them captive, and shall come again into this land: for Yahweh your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if you return to him." 10 So the couriers passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh, even to Zebulun: but they ridiculed them, and mocked them. 11 Nevertheless certain men of Asher and Manasseh and of Zebulun humbled themselves, and came to Jerusalem.
  • 1 Cor 1:23 : 23 but we preach Christ crucified; a stumbling block to Jews, and foolishness to Greeks,

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    31 because he has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained; of which he has given assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the dead."

  • 1 Cor 15:12-13
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    12 Now if Christ is preached, that he has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?

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  • Acts 17:33
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    33 Thus Paul went out from among them.

  • Acts 17:18-21
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    18 Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also were conversing with him. Some said, "What does this babbler want to say?" Others said, "He seems to be advocating foreign deities," because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.

    19 They took hold of him, and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, "May we know what this new teaching is, which is spoken by you?

    20 For you bring certain strange things to our ears. We want to know therefore what these things mean."

    21 Now all the Athenians and the strangers living there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.

  • 1 Cor 15:35
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    35 But someone will say, "How are the dead raised?" and, "With what kind of body do they come?"

  • Acts 2:32
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    32 This Jesus God raised up, to which we all are witnesses.

  • Acts 26:8
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    8 Why is it judged incredible with you, if God does raise the dead?

  • Acts 13:30-31
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    30 But God raised him from the dead,

    31 and he was seen for many days by those who came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses to the people.

  • Acts 24:21
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    21 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!'"

  • Acts 24:15
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    15 having hope toward God, which these also themselves look for, that there will be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.

  • 1 Cor 15:15-16
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    15 Yes, we are found false witnesses of God, because we testified about God that he raised up Christ, whom he didn't raise up, if it is so that the dead are not raised.

    16 For if the dead aren't raised, neither has Christ been raised.

  • Acts 2:12-13
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    12 They were all amazed, and were perplexed, saying one to another, "What does this mean?"

    13 Others, mocking, said, "They are filled with new wine."

  • 2 Tim 2:18
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    18 men who have erred concerning the truth, saying that the resurrection is already past, and overthrowing the faith of some.

  • John 5:28
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    28 Don't marvel at this, for the hour comes, in which all that are in the tombs will hear his voice,

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    2 being upset because they taught the people and proclaimed in Jesus the resurrection from the dead.

  • Acts 17:3
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    3 explaining and demonstrating that the Christ had to suffer and rise again from the dead, and saying, "This Jesus, whom I proclaim to you, is the Christ."

  • Acts 28:24
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    24 Some believed the things which were spoken, and some disbelieved.

  • Acts 25:19
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    19 but had certain questions against him about their own religion, and about one Jesus, who was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive.

  • Matt 27:41
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    41 Likewise the chief priests also mocking, with the scribes, the Pharisees, and the elders, said,

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    27 Some of the Sadducees came to him, those who deny that there is a resurrection.

  • Matt 22:31
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    31 But concerning the resurrection of the dead, haven't you read that which was spoken to you by God, saying,

  • 1 Pet 4:5-6
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    5 who will give account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.

    6 For to this end the Good News was preached even to the dead, that they might be judged indeed as men in the flesh, but live as to God in the spirit.

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    15 and killed the Prince of life, whom God raised from the dead, to which we are witnesses.

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    37 But he whom God raised up saw no decay.

  • Acts 10:40-42
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    40 God raised him up the third day, and gave him to be revealed,

    41 not to all the people, but to witnesses who were chosen before by God, to us, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.

    42 He commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that this is he who is appointed by God as the Judge of the living and the dead.

  • Luke 8:53
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    53 They were ridiculing him, knowing that she was dead.

  • Acts 28:22
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    22 But we desire to hear from you what you think. For, as concerning this sect, it is known to us that everywhere it is spoken against."

  • Mark 9:10
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    10 They kept this saying to themselves, questioning what the "rising from the dead" meant.

  • 1 Cor 15:29
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    29 Or else what will they do who are baptized for the dead? If the dead aren't raised at all, why then are they baptized for the dead?

  • Mark 12:18
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    18 There came to him Sadducees, who say that there is no resurrection. They asked him, saying,

  • Matt 9:24
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    24 he said to them, "Make room, because the girl isn't dead, but sleeping." They were ridiculing him.

  • Acts 23:7
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    7 When he had said this, an argument arose between the Pharisees and Sadducees, and the assembly was divided.

  • Heb 11:35
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    35 Women received their dead by resurrection. Others were tortured, not accepting their deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection.

  • Mark 6:16
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    16 But Herod, when he heard this, said, "This is John, whom I beheaded. He has risen from the dead."

  • Matt 22:22-23
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    22 When they heard it, they marveled, and left him, and went away.

    23 On that day Sadducees (those who say that there is no resurrection) came to him. They asked him,

  • Jude 1:18
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    18 They said to you that "In the last time there will be mockers, walking after their own ungodly lusts."

  • Luke 16:31
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    31 "He said to him, 'If they don't listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded if one rises from the dead.'"

  • Mark 16:13
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    13 They went away and told it to the rest. They didn't believe them, either.

  • Matt 27:63
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    63 saying, "Sir, we remember what that deceiver said while he was still alive: 'After three days I will rise again.'