And the high priest, rising up, and all those with him, being the sect of the Sadducees, were filled with jealousy,

But there rose up some from the sect of the Pharisees, who believed, saying, "It is necessary to circumcise them, and to charge them to keep the law of Moses."

For, finding this man a plague, and stirring up insurrections among the Jews throughout the inhabited earth, and a ring-leader of the sect of the Nazarenes;

having known me from the beginning, if they were willing to testify, that according to the strictest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.

But we deem it proper to hear from you what you think: for, indeed, concerning this sect, it is known to us that everywhere it is spoken against."