American Standard Version
"Why is it judged incredible with you, if God doth raise the dead? "
— Acts 26:8, American Standard Version
“Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead?”
“Why is it judged incredible with you, if God does raise the dead?”
“Why do you people think it is unbelievable that God raises the dead?”
“Why should it be thought a thing incredible that God should raise the dead?”
“Why, in your opinion, is it outside belief for God to make the dead come to life again?”
“Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead?”
having knowledge of me from the first, if they be willing to testify, that after the straitest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.
And now I stand here to be judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers;
unto which promise our twelve tribes, earnestly serving God night and day, hope to attain. And concerning this hope I am accused by the Jews, O king!
Why is it judged incredible with you, if God doth raise the dead?
I verily thought with myself that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
And this I also did in Jerusalem: and I both shut up many of the saints in prisons, having received authority from the chief priests, and when they were put to death I gave my vote against them.
And punishing them oftentimes in all the synagogues, I strove to make them blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even unto foreign cities.