Acts 4:1
AND as they were thus speaking, the priests, and the captain of the temple-guard, and the Sadducees, came upon them,
Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament
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Matthew 3:7But when he saw many of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, O ye broods of vipers! who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
Matthew 22:16And they sent to him their disciples, with the Herodians, saying, Master, we know that thou art true, and teachest the way of God with veracity; and carest for no man, for thou regardest not the person of men:
Matthew 26:3Then were the chief priests and scribes, and the elders of the people gathered together in the palace of the high-priest, called Caiaphas.
Matthew 27:20But the chief priests and elders persuaded the populace that they should ask for Barabbas, and destroy Jesus.
Luke 22:4And he went and conversed with the chief priests and the captains, by what means he could betray him unto them.
John 18:3Then Judas having taken a band of soldiers, and the inferior officers of the chief priests and Pharisees, cometh thither with lanterns and torches and arms.
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 →