Acts 4:1
While they were speaking to the people, the priests, and the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees came upon them,
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
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Matthew 3:7But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his immersion, he said to them: Generation of vipers, who has warned you to flee from the coining wrath?
Matthew 22:16And they sent to him their disciples, with the Herodians, saying: Teacher, we know that you are true, and that you teach the way of God in truth, and care not for any one: for you do not look upon the person of men.
Matthew 26:3Then the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people met together at the palace of the chief priest, who was called Caiaphas.
Matthew 27:20But the chief priests and the elders persuaded the multitude to ask Barabbas, and destroy Jesus.
Luke 22:4And he went away, and conferred with the chief priests and the captains how he might deliver him up to them.
John 18:3Judas, then, having received the band of soldiers and attendants from the chief priests and Pharisees, came thither with torches and lamps and weapons.
Matthew Henry on Acts 4:1
In going over the last two chapters, where we met with so many good things that the apostles did, I wondered what was become of the scribes and Pharisees, and chief priests, that they did not appear to contradict and oppose them, as they had used to treat Christ himself; surely they were so confounded at first with the pouring out of the Spirit that they were for a time struck dumb! But I find we have not lost them; their forces rally again, and here we have an encounter between them and the apostles; for from the… Read the whole commentary →