Then the high priest rose up, and all those who were with him (which is the sect of the Sadducees), and they were filled with zeal,

But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy; and contradicting and blaspheming, they opposed the things spoken by Paul.

And about that time there was no small disturbance about the Way;

When Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant the Ammonite, heard of it, it made them shudder over the great evil, that a man had come to seek the welfare of the children of Israel.

Then the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered a council and said, What shall we do? For this Man performs many signs.

If we let Him alone like this, everyone will believe into Him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and nation.

God raised Him up on the third day, and gave to Him to become manifest,

And He commanded us to preach to the people, and to testify that it is He who was ordained by God to be Judge of the living and the dead.

Then certain Epicurean and Stoic philosophers encountered him. And some said, What does this empty talker want to say? And others, He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign demons, because he preached to them Jesus and the resurrection.

because He has established a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness by the Man whom He has appointed. He has given assurance of this to everyone by raising Him from the dead.

And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some ridiculed, while others said, We will hear you again concerning this matter.

But this I confess to you, that according to the Way which they call a sect, so I serve the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the Law and in the Prophets.

I have hope in God, which they themselves also admit, that there will be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and the unjust.

unless it is for this one statement which I cried out while standing among them, Concerning the resurrection of the dead I am being judged by you this day.

Why should it be thought incredible by you if God raises the dead?

that the Christ would suffer, that He would be the first to rise from the dead, and would proclaim light to the Jewish people and to the Gentiles.

But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also make your mortal bodies alive through His Spirit who dwells in you.

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?

And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is vain and your faith is also vain.

For if the dead are not raised, then Christ has not been raised.

Then also those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.

But now Christ has been raised from the dead, and has become the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.

But each one in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, afterward those who are Christ's at His coming.

And since we have the same spirit of faith, according to what is written, I believe and therefore I speak, we also believe and therefore speak,

knowing that He who raised up the Lord Jesus will also raise us up through Jesus, and will present us with you.

But I do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who are asleep, that you sorrow not as others who have no hope.

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who sleep in Jesus.