⁴ John came baptizing^[a](A) in the wilderness^(B) and preaching a baptism of repentance^[b](C) for the forgiveness^(D) of sins.^(E)

³¹ Seeing this in advance, he spoke concerning the resurrection of the Messiah:

² because they were provoked that they were teaching the people and proclaiming the resurrection from the dead, using Jesus as the example.^[a](A)

¹⁸ Then also, some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers argued with him. Some said, “What is this pseudo-intellectual^[a] trying to say?”

Others replied, “He seems to be a preacher of foreign deities”—because he was telling the good news about Jesus and the Resurrection.^[b](A)

⁶ When Paul realized that one part of them were Sadducees and the other part were Pharisees, he cried out in the Sanhedrin, “Brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees!^(A) I am being judged because of the hope of the resurrection of the dead!”^(B)

¹⁵ And I have a hope in God, which these men themselves also accept, that there is going to be a resurrection,^[a](A) both of the righteous and the unrighteous.^(B)

²³ that the Messiah must suffer, and that as the first to rise from the dead, He would proclaim light to our people and to the Gentiles.”^(A)