Acts 4:2
King James Version (KJV)
Being grieved that they taught the people, and preached through Jesus the resurrection from the dead.
Translations
Acts 4:2 - Amplified Bible
Being vexed {and} indignant through {and} through because they were teaching the people {and} proclaiming in [the case of] Jesus the resurrection from the dead.
Acts 4:2 - American Standard Version
being sore troubled because they taught the people, and proclaimed in Jesus the resurrection from the dead.
Acts 4:2 - Bible in Basic English
Being greatly troubled because they were teaching the people and preaching Jesus as an example of the coming back from the dead.
Acts 4:2 - Darby Bible
being distressed on account of their teaching the people and preaching by Jesus the resurrection from among [the] dead;
Acts 4:2 - English Standard Version
greatly annoyed because they were teaching the people and proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection from the dead.
Acts 4:2 - King James Version
Being grieved that they taught the people, and preached through Jesus the resurrection from the dead.
Acts 4:2 - La Biblia de las Americas
indignados porque enseñaban al pueblo, y anunciaban en Jesùs la resurrecciòn de entre los muertos.
Acts 4:2 - The Message
Acts 4:2 - New American Standard Bible
being greatly disturbed because they were teaching the people and proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection from the dead.
Acts 4:2 - Nueva Biblia Latinoamericana de Hoy
indignados porque enseñaban al pueblo, y anunciaban en Jesùs la resurrecciòn de entre los muertos.
Acts 4:2 - World English Bible
being upset because they taught the people and proclaimed in Jesus the resurrection from the dead.
Acts 4:2 - Young's Living Translation
being grieved because of their teaching the people, and preaching in Jesus the rising again out of the dead --
Acts 4:2 - Additional Comments
They were offended that unlearned Galileans (Peter and John), in no way connected with the priestly office & unauthorized by them, should presume to set themselves up as religious teachers. Yet, they were amazed at their teachings (vs 13).
When we die, our soul is separated from our body, so at that time we have no physical presence. The term "resurrection of the dead" refers to the resurrection that will take place at the return of Christ. Those in Christ will be reanimated at the end of the world to live on the new earth.
Isa 65:17 "For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; And the former shall not be remembered or come to mind."
Isa 66:22 "For as the new heavens and the new earth Which I will make shall remain before Me," says the LORD...
2 Pet 3:13 Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.
Rev 21:1 Now I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. Also there was no more sea.
The Pharisees understood it as the doctrine of a physical raising of a dead body from the grave, while the Sadducees denied the resurrection altogether. Paul knows this, and sends the factions against each, later in Acts - "But when Paul perceived that one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, "Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee; concerning the hope and resurrection of the dead I am being judged!" - Acts 23:6
Jesus, to the Sadducees (Luke 20:27), describes the resurrection:
Luke 20:35 "But those who are counted worthy to attain that age, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry nor are given in marriage;
Luke 20:36 "nor can they die anymore, for they are equal to the angels and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection.
Luke 20:37 "But even Moses showed in the burning bush passage that the dead are raised, when he called the Lord 'the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.'
Luke 20:38 "For He is not the God of the dead but of the living, for all live to Him."
It appears those without Christ also will be in some form, as we read in Acts 24:15 - "... that there will be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and the unjust." But we read in this passage the resurrection is only for "those who are counted worthy". John clarifies it:
John 5:28 "Do not marvel at this; for the hour is coming in which all who are in the graves will hear His voice
John 5:29 "and come forth; those who have done good, to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of condemnation."
So, the resurrection of those in Christ is "everlasting life".
John 6:40 "And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him may have everlasting life; and I will raise him up at the last day."
Jesus tells us in John 11:26, "and everyone who lives and believes in Me shall never die...". This is referring to spiritual death, for those who are without Christ.
Rev 21:8 "But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death."
Rev 20:14 And death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.
Rev 20:15 And if anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.
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