Acts 4:1
AND while they were speaking to the people, the priests, and the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees, came upon them,
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Matthew 3:7But seeing many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his immersion, he said to them: Brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?
Matthew 22:16And they send out to him their disciples, with the Herodians, saying: Teacher, we know that thou art true, and teachest the way of God in truth; neither carest thou for any one, for thou regardest not the person of men.
Matthew 26:3Then assembled together the chief priests, and the elders of the people, in the court of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas,
Matthew 27:20And the chief priests and the elders persuaded the multitudes, that they should ask for Barabbas, and should destroy Jesus.
Luke 22:4And he went away, and consulted with the chief priests and captains, how he might deliver him up to them.
John 18:3Judas therefore, having received the band and officers from the chief priests and Pharisees, comes thither with torches and lamps 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 →