1And as they spake unto the people, the priests, and the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees, came upon them,
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And he went his way, and communed with the chief priests and captains, how he might betray him unto them.
But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee: of the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question. …
And they stirred up the people, and the elders, and the scribes, and came upon him, and caught him, and brought him to the council,
Now when the high priest and the captain of the temple and the chief priests heard these things, they doubted of them whereunto this would grow.
Then went the captain with the officers, and brought them without violence: for they feared the people, lest they should have been stoned.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-4)We have here the interests of the kingdom of heaven successfully carried on, and the powers of darkness appearing against them to put a stop to them. let Christ’s servants be ever so resolute, Satan’s agents will be spiteful; and therefore, let Satan’s agents be ever so spiteful, Christ’s servants ought to be resolute. I. The apostles, Peter and John, went on in their work, and did not labour in v…
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