SEV Biblia, Chapter 24:21
si no sea que, estando entre ellos prorrumpí en alta voz: Acerca de la resurreccin de los muertos soy hoy juzgado de vosotros.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Acts 24:21
Verse 21. Except it be for this one voice] The Sadducees who belong to that council, and who deny the resurrection of the dead, may indeed blame me for professing my faith in this doctrine; but as this is a doctrine credited by the nation in general, and as there can be nothing criminal in such a belief, and there can bring no accusation against me relative to any thing else, this, of course, is the sum of all the charges to which I am called to answer before you this day.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 21. Except it be for this one voice , etc.] Sentence or expression following, which declares his faith about the resurrection; not that he thought or owned that this was an evil in him, but that it was the only one, that any of them, the Jews, a part among them, namely, the Sadducees, could condemn, or judge to be evil in him: that I cried, standing among them ; whereby they were thrown into confusion and division among themselves: and it was this, touching the resurrection of the dead I am called in question by you this day ; (see Acts 23:6).
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 10-21 - Paul gives a just account of himself, which clears him from crime, an likewise shows the true reason of the violence against him. Let u never be driven from any good way by its having an ill name. It is very comfortable, in worshipping God, to look to him as the God of ou fathers, and to set up no other rule of faith or practice but the Scriptures. This shows there will be a resurrection to a fina judgment. Prophets and their doctrines were to be tried by their fruits. Paul's aim was to have a conscience void of offence. His car and endeavour was to abstain from many things, and to abound in the exercises of religion at all times; both towards God. and towards man If blamed for being more earnest in the things of God than ou neighbours, what is our reply? Do we shrink from the accusation? Ho many in the world would rather be accused of any weakness, nay, even of wickedness, than of an earnest, fervent feeling of love to the Lor Jesus Christ, and of devotedness to his service! Can such think that He will confess them when he comes in his glory, and before the angels of God? If there is any sight pleasing to the God of our salvation, and sight at which the angels rejoice, it is, to behold a devoted followe of the Lord, here upon earth, acknowledging that he is guilty, if it be a crime, of loving the Lord who died for him, with all his heart, an soul, and mind, and strength. And that he will not in silence see God' word despised, or hear his name profaned; he will rather risk the ridicule and the hatred of the world, than one frown from that graciou Being whose love is better than life.
Greek Textus Receptus
η 2228 PRT περι 4012 PREP μιας 1520 A-GSF ταυτης 3778 D-GSF φωνης 5456 N-GSF ης 3739 R-GSF εκραξα 2896 5656 V-AAI-1S εστως 2476 5761 V-RAP-NSM εν 1722 PREP αυτοις 846 P-DPM οτι 3754 CONJ περι 4012 PREP αναστασεως 386 N-GSF νεκρων 3498 A-GPM εγω 1473 P-1NS κρινομαι 2919 5743 V-PPI-1S σημερον 4594 ADV υφ 5259 PREP υμων 5216 P-2GP
Robertson's NT Word Studies
24:21 {Except it be} (e). Literally, "than," but after interrogative ti = ti allo "what else than." {For this one voice} (peri mias tautes fwnes). The normal Greek idiom with the attributive use of houtos calls for the article before mias, though some inscriptions show it as here (Robertson, _Grammar_, p. 702). {That} (hes). Genitive of the relative attracted to the case of the antecedent {fwnes}. {I cried} (ekekraxa). Reduplicated aorist as is usual with this verb in the LXX (#Jud 3:15). Robertson, _Grammar_, p. 348. {Touching} (peri). Concerning (around, about). {I am called in question} (krinomai). As in #23:6. {Before you} (ef' humwn). Same idiom as in verses #19,20.
