Acts 24:21

"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!’”"

Key Reflection

Paul asserts that his defense before Felix centers on the resurrection of the dead, a central tenet of his faith and message. This declaration underscores the profound importance of this belief in his spiritual journey and the controversy it sparked.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Verse 21. Except it be for this one voice. For this one expression, or decimation. This was what Paul had said before the council--the main thing on which he had insisted; and he calls on them to testify to this, and to show, if they could, that in this declaration he had been wrong. Chubb and other infidels have supposed that Paul here acknowledges that he was wrong in the declaration which he made, when he said, that he was called in question for the doctrine of the resurrection of the del (Ac 23:6,) and his conscience reproached him for appearing to be time-serving, and for concealing the t

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