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Acts 23:6

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23:6 Then when Paul noticed 1  that part of them were Sadducees 2  and the others Pharisees, 3  he shouted out in the council, 4  “Brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. I am on trial concerning the hope of the resurrection 5  of the dead!”

Philippians 3:5-6

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3:5 I was circumcised on the eighth day, from the people of Israel and the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews. I lived according to the law as a Pharisee. 6  3:6 In my zeal for God I persecuted the church. According to the righteousness stipulated in the law I was blameless.
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[23:6]  1 tn BDAG 200 s.v. γινώσκω 4 has “to be aware of someth., perceive, notice, realize”; this is further clarified by section 4.c: “w. ὅτι foll….Ac 23:6.”

[23:6]  2 sn See the note on Sadducees in 4:1.

[23:6]  3 sn See the note on Pharisee in 5:34.

[23:6]  4 tn Grk “the Sanhedrin” (the Sanhedrin was the highest legal, legislative, and judicial body among the Jews).

[23:6]  5 tn That is, concerning the hope that the dead will be resurrected. Grk “concerning the hope and resurrection.” BDAG 320 s.v. ἐλπίς 1.b.α states, “Of Israel’s messianic hope Ac 23:6 (. καὶ ἀνάστασις for . τῆς ἀν. [obj. gen] as 2 Macc 3:29 . καὶ σωτηρία).” With an objective genitive construction, the resurrection of the dead would be the “object” of the hope.

[3:5]  6 sn A Pharisee was a member of one of the most important and influential religious and political parties of Judaism in the time of Jesus. There were more Pharisees than Sadducees (according to Josephus, Ant. 17.2.4 [17.42] there were more than 6,000 Pharisees at about this time). Pharisees differed with Sadducees on certain doctrines and patterns of behavior. The Pharisees were strict and zealous adherents to the laws of the OT and to numerous additional traditions such as angels and bodily resurrection.



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