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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In Context
2being indignant that they taught the people, and proclaimed in Jesus the resurrection from the dead.
Cross References
Matthew 3:7But seeing many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to be baptized, 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, and thou carest for no one; for thou regardest not the person of men.
Matthew 26:3Then the chief priests and the elders of the people assembled in the court of the palace of the high-priest, named Caiaphas;
Matthew 27:20But the chief priests and the elders persuaded the multitudes to ask for Barabbas, and to 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 then, having received the band of soldiers, and officers from the chief priests and Pharisees, cometh thither with torches and lanterns 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 →