Acts 5:17

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Summary

Then the high priest rose up, and all they that were with him, (which is the sect of the Sadducees,) and were filled with indignation,

The high

All

Acts 4:1

Acts 23:6

Indignation

General references

Jeremiah 26:7

Bible References

The high

The kings of the earth stood together, and the rulers assembled together, against the Lord and against his Christ.'

Why do the nations rebel? Why are the countries devising plots that will fail?

So the chief priests and the Pharisees called the council together and said, "What are we doing? For this man is performing many miraculous signs.

So the chief priests planned to kill Lazarus too,

All

While Peter and John were speaking to the people, the priests and the commander of the temple guard and the Sadducees came up to them,

Then when Paul noticed that part of them were Sadducees and the others Pharisees, he shouted out in the council, "Brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. I am on trial concerning the hope of the resurrection of the dead!"

Indignation

The patriarchs, because they were jealous of Joseph, sold him into Egypt. But God was with him,

But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy, and they began to contradict what Paul was saying by reviling him.

But the Jews became jealous, and gathering together some worthless men from the rabble in the marketplace, they formed a mob and set the city in an uproar. They attacked Jason's house, trying to find Paul and Silas to bring them out to the assembly.

So Saul feared David, because the Lord was with him but had departed from Saul.

For wrath kills the foolish person, and anger slays the silly one.

A tranquil spirit revives the body, but envy is rottenness to the bones.

Wrath is cruel and anger is overwhelming, but who can stand before jealousy?

Then I considered all the skillful work that is done: Surely it is nothing more than competition between one person and another. This also is profitless -- like chasing the wind.

(For he knew that they had handed him over because of envy.)

envying, murder, drunkenness, carousing, and similar things. I am warning you, as I had warned you before: Those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God!

But if you have bitter jealousy and selfishness in your hearts, do not boast and tell lies against the truth.

Or do you think the scripture means nothing when it says, "The spirit that God caused to live within us has an envious yearning"?

So get rid of all evil and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander.

General references

The priests, the prophets, and all the people heard Jeremiah say these things in the Lord's temple.