Acts 4:2

Being grieved that they taught the people and preached in Jesus the resurrection from the dead:

Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner, 1752)

In The King James Version

Being grieved that they taught the people, and preached through Jesus the resurrection from the dead.

In Context

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

3And they laid hands upon them and put them in hold till the next day: for it was now evening.

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Cross References

John 11:47The chief priests, therefore, and the Pharisees gathered a council and said: What do we, for this man doth many miracles?

Acts 5:17Then the high priest rising up, and all they that were with him (which is the heresy of the Sadducees) were filled with envy.

Acts 13:45And the Jews, seeing the multitudes, were filled with envy and contradicted those things which were said by Paul, blaspheming.

Acts 17:31Because he hath appointed a day wherein he will judge the world in equity, by the man whom he hath appointed: giving faith to all, by raising him up from the dead.

Acts 24:14But this I confess to thee that according to the way which they call a heresy, so do I serve the Father and my God, believing all things which are written in the law and the prophets:

Acts 26:8Why should it be thought a thing incredible that God should raise the dead?

Matthew Henry on Acts 4:2-5

Peter and John Imprisoned. 1 And as they spake unto the people, the priests, and the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees, came upon them, 2 Being grieved that they taught the people, and preached through Jesus the resurrection from the dead. 3 And they laid hands on them, and put them in hold unto the next day: for it was now eventide. 4 Howbeit many of them which heard the word believed; and the number of the men was about five thousand. We have here the interests of the kingdom of heaven successfully… Read the whole commentary →

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