Acts 4:2
being vexed because they taught the people, and preached through Jesus the resurrection from the dead.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
3And they laid hands on them, and put them in prison till the next day, for it was already evening.
Cross References
John 11:47Then the chief priests and the Pharisees called together the Sanhedrin, and said: What are we doing? For this man does many signs.
Acts 5:17But the chief priest arose, and all that were with him, (which is the sect of the Sadducees,) and were filled with indignation;
Acts 13:45But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy, and spoke against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and reviling.
Acts 17:31because he has appointed a day in which he will judge the world, in righteousness, by the man whom he has chosen, giving to all assurance of this, by having raised him from the dead.
Acts 24:14But this I confess to you, that after the way which they call sect, so do I worship the God of my fathers; believing all things that are written in the law and in the prophets;
Acts 26:8What? Is it thought a thing incredible among you, that God raises the dead?
Matthew Henry on Acts 4:2-5
Peter and John Imprisoned. 1 And as they spake unto the people, the priests, and the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees, came upon them, 2 Being grieved that they taught the people, and preached through Jesus the resurrection from the dead. 3 And they laid hands on them, and put them in hold unto the next day: for it was now eventide. 4 Howbeit many of them which heard the word believed; and the number of the men was about five thousand. We have here the interests of the kingdom of heaven successfully… Read the whole commentary →