Acts 24:21
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New International Version (©2011)
unless it was this one thing I shouted as I stood in their presence: 'It is concerning the resurrection of the dead that I am on trial before you today.'"

New Living Translation (©2007)
except for the one time I shouted out, 'I am on trial before you today because I believe in the resurrection of the dead!'"

English Standard Version (©2001)
other than this one thing that I cried out while standing among them: ‘It is with respect to the resurrection of the dead that I am on trial before you this day.’”

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
other than for this one statement which I shouted out while standing among them, 'For the resurrection of the dead I am on trial before you today.'"

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
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.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
or about this one statement I cried out while standing among them, 'Today I am being judged before you concerning the resurrection of the dead.'"

International Standard Version (©2012)
unless it is for the one thing I shouted as I stood among them: 'It is for the resurrection of the dead that I am on trial before you today.'"

NET Bible (©2006)
other than this one thing I shouted out while I stood before them: 'I am on trial before you today concerning the resurrection of the dead.'"

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
“Except for this statement, which I cried when I stood in their midst: 'For the resurrection of the dead I am judged today before you.'”

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
They could accuse me of only one thing. As I stood among them, I shouted, 'I'm being tried in front of you because [I believe that] the dead will come back to life.'"

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Except it be for this one thing, that I cried standing among them, Concerning the resurrection of the dead I am called in question by you this day.

American King James Version
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.

American Standard Version
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.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Except it be for this one voice only that I cried, standing among them, Concerning the resurrection of the dead am I judged this day by you.

Darby Bible Translation
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.

English Revised Version
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.

Webster's Bible Translation
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.

Weymouth New Testament
unless it was in that one expression which I made use of when I shouted out as I stood among them, "'The resurrection of the dead is the thing about which I am on my trial before you to-day.'"

World English Bible
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!'"

Young's Literal Translation
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.'

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

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. Prophets and their doctrines were to be tried by their fruits. Paul's aim was to have a conscience void of offence. His care and endeavour was to abstain from many things, and to abound in the exercises of religion at all times; both towards God. and towards man. If blamed for being more earnest in the things of God than our neighbours, what is our reply? Do we shrink from the accusation? How many in the world would rather be accused of any weakness, nay, even of wickedness, than of an earnest, fervent feeling of love to the Lord Jesus Christ, and of devotedness to his service! Can such think that He will confess them when he comes in his glory, and before the angels of God? If there is any sight pleasing to the God of our salvation, and a sight at which the angels rejoice, it is, to behold a devoted follower of the Lord, here upon earth, acknowledging that he is guilty, if it be a crime, of loving the Lord who died for him, with all his heart, and soul, and mind, and strength. And that he will not in silence see God's word despised, or hear his name profaned; he will rather risk the ridicule and the hatred of the world, than one frown from that gracious Being whose love is better than life.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 21. - Before you for by you, A.V. and T.R. (ἐπί for ὑπό). Except (ἤ): ἄλλο, else, is understood after τί, so that ἤ is equivalent to εἴ μή. Touching the resurrection (see Acts 23:6, where the exact words are," Touching the hope and resurrection of the dead, I am called in question ").

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Except it be for this one voice,.... Sentence or expression following, which declares his faith about the resurrection; not that he thought or owned that this was an evil in him, but that it was the only one, that any of them, the Jews, a part among them, namely, the Sadducees, could condemn, or judge to be evil in him:

that I cried, standing among them; whereby they were thrown into confusion and division among themselves: and it was this,

touching the resurrection of the dead I am called in question by you this day; see Acts 23:6.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

21. Except … this one voice … Touching the resurrection, &c.—This would recall to the Pharisees present their own inconsistency, in befriending him then and now accusing him.

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Paul Defends His Testimony
…19Who ought to have been here before you, and object, if they had ought against me. 20Or else let these same here say, if they have found any evil doing in me, while I stood before the council, 21Except 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 23:6 Then Paul, knowing that some of them were Sadducees and the others Pharisees, called out in the Sanhedrin, "My brothers, I am a Pharisee, descended from Pharisees. I stand on trial because of the hope of the resurrection of the dead."
Acts 24:15 and I have the same hope in God as these men themselves have, that there will be a resurrection of both the righteous and the wicked.