17Then the high priest rose up, and all they that were with him,(which is the sect of the Sadducees,) and were filled with indignation,
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But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy, and spake against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.
And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him,
But the Jews which believed not, moved with envy, took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, and gathered a company, and set all the city on an uproar, and assaulted the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people.
Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
And Saul was afraid of David, because the LORD was with him, and was departed from Saul. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 17-25)Never did any good work go on with any hope of success, but it met with opposition; those that are bent to do mischief cannot be reconciled to those who make it their business to do good. Satan, the destroyer of mankind, ever was, and will be, an adversary to those who are the benefactors of mankind; and it would have been strange if the apostles had gone on thus teaching and healing and had had n…
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