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Then Paul thought of something! Part of the Council were Sadducees, and part were Pharisees! So he shouted, “Brothers, I am a Pharisee, as were all my ancestors! And I am being tried here today because I believe in the resurrection of the dead!”

This divided the Council right down the middle—the Pharisees against the Sadducees— for the Sadducees say there is no resurrection or angels or even eternal spirit within us,[a] but the Pharisees believe in all of these.

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 23:8 or even eternal spirit within us, literally, “nor spirit.”

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