Acts 26:8
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Why should it be thought a thing incredible that God should raise the dead?

Acts 4:2 Being grieved that they taught the people and preached in Jesus the resurrection from the dead:

Acts 10:40-42 Him God raised up the third day and gave him to be made manifest, . . .

Acts 13:30,31 But God raised him up from the dead the third day. . . .

Acts 17:31,32 Because he hath appointed a day wherein he will judge the world in equity, by the man whom he hath appointed: giving faith to all, by raising him up from the dead. . . .

Acts 25:19 But had certain questions of their own superstition against him, and of one Jesus deceased, whom Paul affirmed to be alive.

Genesis 18:14 Is there any thing hard to God? According to appointment I will return to thee at this same time, life accompanying, and Sara shall have a son.

Matthew 22:29-32 And Jesus answering, said to them: You err, not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God. . . .

Luke 1:37 Because no word shall be impossible with God.

Luke 18:27 He said to them: The things that are impossible with men are possible with God.

John 5:28,29 Wonder not at this: for the hour cometh wherein all that are in the graves shall hear the voice of the Son of God. . . .

1 Corinthians 15:12-20 Now if Christ be preached, that he arose again from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? . . .

Philippians 3:21 Who will reform the body of our lowness, made like to the body of his glory, according to the operation whereby also he is able to subdue all things unto himself.

Context
Paul's Testimony to Agrippa
7Unto which, our twelve tribes, serving night and day, hope to come. For which hope, O king, I am accused by the Jews. 8Why should it be thought a thing incredible that God should raise the dead? 9And I indeed did formerly think that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.…
Cross References
Acts 23:6
And Paul, knowing that the one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, cried out in the council: Men, brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of Pharisees: concerning the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question.

1 Corinthians 15:34
Awake, ye just, and sin not. For some have not the knowledge of God. I speak it to your shame.

Lexicon
Why {would}
τί (ti)
Interrogative / Indefinite Pronoun - Accusative Neuter Singular
Strong's Greek 5101: Who, which, what, why. Probably emphatic of tis; an interrogative pronoun, who, which or what.

any of you
ὑμῖν (hymin)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Dative 2nd Person Plural
Strong's Greek 4771: You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou.

consider it
κρίνεται (krinetai)
Verb - Present Indicative Middle or Passive - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's Greek 2919: Properly, to distinguish, i.e. Decide; by implication, to try, condemn, punish.

incredible
ἄπιστον (apiston)
Adjective - Nominative Neuter Singular
Strong's Greek 571: (passively) untrustworthy (person), or incredible (thing).

that
εἰ (ei)
Conjunction
Strong's Greek 1487: If. A primary particle of conditionality; if, whether, that, etc.

God
Θεὸς (Theos)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's Greek 2316: A deity, especially the supreme Divinity; figuratively, a magistrate; by Hebraism, very.

raises
ἐγείρει (egeirei)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's Greek 1453: (a) I wake, arouse, (b) I raise up. Probably akin to the base of agora; to waken, i.e. Rouse.

[the] dead?
νεκροὺς (nekrous)
Adjective - Accusative Masculine Plural
Strong's Greek 3498: (a) adj: dead, lifeless, subject to death, mortal, (b) noun: a dead body, a corpse. From an apparently primary nekus; dead.


Additional Translations
Why would any of you consider it incredible that God raises the dead?

Why is it judged incredible by you if God raises the dead?

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 doth raise the dead?

Why should it be judged a thing incredible in your sight if God raises the dead?

Why is it judged incredible with you, if God doth raise the dead?

Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead?

Why is it deemed with all of you a thing past belief if God raises the dead to life?

Why is it judged incredible with you, if God does raise the dead?

why is it judged incredible with you, if God doth raise the dead?
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