Acts 25:17-19
17 Therefore when they had come together, without any delay, the next day I sat on the judgment seat and commanded the man to be brought in. 18 When the accusers stood up, they brought no accusation against him of such things as I supposed, 19 but had some questions against him about their own religion and about a certain Jesus, who had died, whom Paul affirmed to be alive.
Now a king hears the plight of Paul from a governor, and hears the allegations by the Jews against him concerning Jesus who died and is told to be alive. The resurrection is the crux of the hope in Christ, proving not only that He is God, the Lord, but also that He has power over death for us. We who are His have a certain hope, not a wish or vague expectation, of rising from death to life - both as a reborn creature now, and beyond the grave into forever. This hope some will try to use legal means to quench, but the word of God is effective and unquenchable.
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