Acts 4:1
And as they were speaking to the people, the priests, and the officer of the temple, and the Sadducees, came upon them,
Douay-Rheims 1899
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In Context
2Being grieved that they taught the people, and preached in Jesus the resurrection from the dead:
Cross References
Matthew 3:7And seeing many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them: Ye brood of vipers, who hath shewed you to flee from the wrath to come?
Matthew 22:16And they sent to him their disciples with the Herodians, saying: Master, we know that thou art a true speaker, and teachest the way of God in truth, neither carest thou for any man: for thou dost not regard the person of men.
Matthew 26:3Then were gathered together the chief priests and ancients of the people into the court of the high priest, who was called Caiphas:
Matthew 27:20But the chief priests and ancients persuaded the people, that they should ask Barabbas, and make Jesus away.
Luke 22:4And he went, and discoursed with the chief priests and the magistrates, how he might betray him to them.
John 18:3Judas therefore having received a band of soldiers and servants from the chief priests and the Pharisees, cometh thither 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 →