Acts 17:32
“And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked: and others said, We will hear thee again of this matter.”
And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:
Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.
And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked: and others said, We will hear thee again of this matter.
So Paul departed from among them.
Howbeit certain men clave unto him, and believed: among the which was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.
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Cross-References
“For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.”
“Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead?”
“Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoicks, encountered him. And some said, What will this babbler say? other some, He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods: because he preached unto them Jesus, and the resurrection.”
“For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.”
“Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?”