Then the high priest rose up, and all that were with him, (being of the sect of the sadducees,) and were filled with rage:

But there rose up, said they, some of the sect of the pharisees that believed, saying, that it was necessary to circumcise them, and enjoin them to keep the law of Moses.

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

knowing me before, (if they would testify it,) that according to the strictest sect of our religion I lived a pharisee.

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