This aroused bitter indignation among the high priest and his followers who were of the sect of the Sadducees,

"Pray," asked the eunuch of Philip, "of whom is the prophet speaking? Of himself, or of some one else?"

and begged of him letters addressed to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any that were of the Way, either men or women, he could bind them and bring them to Jerusalem.