¹⁹ but certain questions concerning their own religion they had against him, and concerning a certain Jesus who was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive;

²⁹ whom I found accused concerning questions of their law, and having no accusation worthy of death or bonds;

¹⁵ but if it is a question concerning words and names, and of your law, look ye yourselves `to it', for a judge of these things I do not wish to be,'

¹⁸ and he who is living, and I did become dead, and, lo, I am living to the ages of the ages. Amen! and I have the keys of the hades and of the death.

¹⁴ and if Christ hath not risen, then void `is' our preaching, and void also your faith,

¹⁵ and we also are found false witnesses of God, because we did testify of God that He raised up the Christ, whom He did not raise if then dead persons do not rise;

¹⁶ for if dead persons do not rise, neither hath Christ risen,

¹⁷ and if Christ hath not risen, vain is your faith, ye are yet in your sins;

¹⁸ then, also, those having fallen asleep in Christ did perish;

¹⁹ if in this life we have hope in Christ only, of all men we are most to be pitied.

²⁰ And now, Christ hath risen out of the dead -- the first-fruits of those sleeping he became,

³ for I delivered to you first, what also I did receive, that Christ died for our sins, according to the Writings,

⁴ and that he was buried, and that he hath risen on the third day, according to the Writings,

²² `Having obtained, therefore, help from God, till this day, I have stood witnessing both to small and to great, saying nothing besides the things that both the prophets and Moses spake of as about to come,

²³ that the Christ is to suffer, whether first by a rising from the dead, he is about to proclaim light to the people and to the nations.'

⁷ and he having come, there stood round about the Jews who have come down from Jerusalem -- many and weighty charges they are bringing against Paul, which they were not able to prove,

¹⁹ and he came down to Ephesus, and did leave them there, and he himself having entered into the synagogue did reason with the Jews:

³¹ because He did set a day in which He is about to judge the world in righteousness, by a man whom He did ordain, having given assurance to all, having raised him out of the dead.'

²² And Paul, having stood in the midst of the Areopagus, said, `Men, Athenians, in all things I perceive you as over-religious;

²³ for passing through and contemplating your objects of worship, I found also an erection on which had been inscribed: To God -- unknown; whom, therefore -- not knowing -- ye do worship, this One I announce to you.

³² `This Jesus did God raise up, of which we are all witnesses;

²² beginning from the baptism of John, unto the day in which he was received up from us, one of these to become with us a witness of his rising again.'