Acts 4:2 Cross References

Acts 4:2

2: They were very disturbed that Peter and John were claiming, on the authority of Jesus, that there is a resurrection of the dead.

He also had a debate with some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers. When he told them about Jesus and his resurrection, they said, "This babbler has picked up some strange ideas." Others said, "He's pushing some foreign religion."

Then the leading priests and Pharisees called the high council together to discuss the situation. "What are we going to do?" they asked each other. "This man certainly performs many miraculous signs.
If we leave him alone, the whole nation will follow him, and then the Roman army will come and destroy both our Temple and our nation."

And now, brothers and sisters, I want you to know what will happen to the Christians who have died so you will not be full of sorrow like people who have no hope.
For since we believe that Jesus died and was raised to life again, we also believe that when Jesus comes, God will bring back with Jesus all the Christians who have died.

But we continue to preach because we have the same kind of faith the psalmist had when he said, "I believed in God, and so I speak."
We know that the same God who raised our Lord Jesus will also raise us with Jesus and present us to himself along with you.

"But I admit that I follow the Way, which they call a sect. I worship the God of our ancestors, and I firmly believe the Jewish law and everything written in the books of prophecy.
I have hope in God, just as these men do, that he will raise both the righteous and the ungodly.

The Spirit of God, who raised Jesus from the dead, lives in you. And just as he raised Christ from the dead, he will give life to your mortal body by this same Spirit living within you.

The high priest and his friends, who were Sadducees, reacted with violent jealousy.

But there is an order to this resurrection: Christ was raised first; then when Christ comes back, all his people will be raised.

For he has set a day for judging the world with justice by the man he has appointed, and he proved to everyone who this is by raising him from the dead."
When they heard Paul speak of the resurrection of a person who had been dead, some laughed, but others said, "We want to hear more about this later."

But tell me this--since we preach that Christ rose from the dead, why are some of you saying there will be no resurrection of the dead?
For if there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ has not been raised either.
And if Christ was not raised, then all our preaching is useless, and your trust in God is useless.
And we apostles would all be lying about God, for we have said that God raised Christ from the grave, but that can't be true if there is no resurrection of the dead.
If there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ has not been raised.

But when Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite official heard of my arrival, they were very angry that someone had come who was interested in helping Israel.

but God raised him to life three days later. Then God allowed him to appear,
not to the general public, but to us whom God had chosen beforehand to be his witnesses. We were those who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.
And he ordered us to preach everywhere and to testify that Jesus is ordained of God to be the judge of all--the living and the dead.
He is the one all the prophets testified about, saying that everyone who believes in him will have their sins forgiven through his name."

But when the Jewish leaders saw the crowds, they were jealous; so they slandered Paul and argued against whatever he said.

that the Messiah would suffer and be the first to rise from the dead as a light to Jews and Gentiles alike."

except for one thing I said when I shouted out, 'I am on trial before you today because I believe in the resurrection of the dead!'"

You killed the author of life, but God raised him to life. And we are witnesses of this fact!

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