Acts 4:1
And while they were talking to the people, the priests and the captain of the Temple and the Sadducees came up to them,
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Matthew 3:7But when he saw a number of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, Offspring of snakes, at whose word are you going in flight from the wrath to come?
Matthew 22:16And they sent to him their disciples, with the Herodians, saying, Master, we see that you are true, and that you are teaching the true way of God, and have no fear of anyone, because you have no respect for a man's position.
Matthew 26:3Then the chief priests and the rulers of the people came together in the house of the high priest, who was named Caiaphas.
Matthew 27:20Now the chief priests and those in authority got the people to make request for Barabbas, and for Jesus to be put to death.
Luke 22:4And he went away and had a discussion with the chief priests and the rulers, about how he might give him up to them.
John 18:3So Judas, getting a band of armed men and police from the chief priests and Pharisees, went there with lights and with arms.
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 →