Acts 5:17

Then the high prist rising up, and all they that were with him, (which is the heresy of the Sadducees,) were filled with envy.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

Then the high priest rose up, and all they that were with him, (which is the sect of the Sadducees,) and were filled with indignation,

In Context

16And there came also together to Jerusalem a multitude out of the neighboring cities, bringing sick persons, and such as were troubled with unclean spirits; who were all healed.

18And they laid hands on the apostles, and put them in the common prison.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 18:12And Saul feared David, because the Lord was with him, and was departed from himself.

Psalms 2:1Why have the Gentiles raged, and the people devised vain things?

Proverbs 27:4Anger hath no mercy, nor fury when it breaketh forth: and who can bear the violence of one provoked?

Matthew 27:18For he knew that for envy they had delivered him.

John 12:10But the chief priests thought to kill Lazarus also:

Acts 4:1And as they were speaking to the people, the priests, and the officer of the temple, and the Sadducees, came upon them,

Matthew Henry on Acts 5:13-17

The Progress of the Gospel. 12 And by the hands of the apostles were many signs and wonders wrought among the people; (and they were all with one accord in Solomon's porch. 13 And of the rest durst no man join himself to them: but the people magnified them. 14 And believers were the more added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women.) 15 Insomuch that they brought forth the sick into the streets, and laid them on beds and couches, that at the least the shadow of Peter passing by might overshadow some of… Read the whole commentary →

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