Acts 23:6-8

Contemporary English Version

^6 (A) When Paul saw that some of the council members were Sadducees and others were Pharisees, he shouted, “My friends, I am a Pharisee and the son of a Pharisee. I am on trial simply because I believe that the dead will be raised to life.”

⁷ As soon as Paul said this, the Pharisees and the Sadducees got into a big argument, and the council members started taking sides. ^8 (B) The Sadducees do not believe in angels or spirits or that the dead will rise to life. But the Pharisees believe in all of these,