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,

And when Herod had sought for him, and found him not, he examined the keepers, and commanded that they should be put to death. And he went down from Judea to Cesarea, and there abode.

But there rose certain of the sect of the Pharisees, who believed, saying, That it was needful to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses.

But the Jews who believed not, moved with envy, took to them certain vile fellows of the baser sort, and gathered a company, and set all the city in an uproar, and assaulted the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people.

For we have found this a pestilent man, and a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ring-leader of the sect of the Nazarenes:

Who knew me from the beginning, (if they would testify) that after the strictest sect of our religion, I lived a Pharisee.

But we desire to hear from thee, what thou thinkest: for as concerning this sect, we know that every where it is spoken against.