Acts 4:2
being greatly annoyed because they were teaching the people and proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection of the dead.
English Majority Text (NT)
In The King James Version
In Context
3And they laid hands on them, and put them in custody until the next day, for it was already evening.
Cross References
John 11:47Therefore the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered a council and said, “What are we doing? For this Man works many signs.
Acts 5:17Then the high priest rose up, and all those who were with him (which is the sect of the Sadducees), and they were filled with jealousy,
Acts 13:45And the Jews, seeing the crowds, were filled with jealousy and spoke against the things being said by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.
Acts 17:31because He has appointed a day in which He is going to judge the world in righteousness by the Man whom He has appointed, having given proof to all, by raising Him from the dead.”
Acts 24:14But I confess this to you, that according to the Way which they call a sect, so I worship the God of my fathers, believing in all things which are written throughout the Law and in the Prophets,
Acts 26:8Why is it considered such an unbelievable thing by you people if God raises 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 →