Acts 4:1
But while they were speaking to the people, the priests and the magistrate of the temple and the Sadducees overwhelmed them,
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Matthew 3:7Then, seeing many of the Pharisees and Sadducees arriving for his baptism, he said to them: “Progeny of vipers, who warned you to flee from the approaching wrath?
Matthew 22:16And they sent their disciples to him, with the Herodians, saying: “Teacher, we know that you are truthful, and that you teach the way of God in truth, and that the influence of others is nothing to you. For you do not consider the reputation of men.
Matthew 26:3Then the leaders of the priests and the elders of the people were gathered together in the court of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas.
Matthew 27:20But the leaders of the priests and the elders persuaded the people, so that they would ask for Barabbas, and so that Jesus would perish.
Luke 22:4And he went out and was speaking with the leaders of the priests, and the magistrates, as to how he might hand him over to them.
John 18:3Then Judas, when he had received a cohort from both the high priests and the attendants of the Pharisees, approached the place with lanterns and torches 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 →