Acts 4:2

The authorities were angry that the apostles taught the people and proclaimed resurrection through Jesus. The resurrection of Christ was the heart of what disturbed them.

Cross-references · 18

• Acts 17:18Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also were conversing with him. Some said, “What does this babbler want to say?” Others said, “He seems to be advocating foreign deities,” because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.
• Acts 24:14–15But this I confess to you, that after the Way, which they call a sect, so I serve the God of our fathers, believing all things which are according to the law, and which are written in the prophets;
• 1 Th 4:13–14But we don’t want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don’t grieve like the rest, who have no hope.
• 1 Cor 15:12–20Now if Christ is preached, that he has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?
• 1 Cor 15:23But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, then those who are Christ’s, at his coming.
• Acts 10:40–43God raised him up the third day, and gave him to be revealed,
• Acts 26:8Why is it judged incredible with you, if God does raise the dead?
• Acts 17:31–32because he has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained; of which he has given assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the dead.”
• Rom 8:11But if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.
• 2 Cor 4:13–14But having the same spirit of faith, according to that which is written, “I believed, and therefore I spoke.” We also believe, and therefore also we speak;
• Acts 13:45But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with jealousy, and contradicted the things which were spoken by Paul, and blasphemed.
• Acts 26:23how the Christ must suffer, and how, by the resurrection of the dead, he would be first to proclaim light both to these people and to the Gentiles.”
• Acts 3:15and killed the Prince of life, whom God raised from the dead, to which we are witnesses.
• John 11:47–48The chief priests therefore and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, “What are we doing? For this man does many signs.
• Acts 24:21unless it is for this one thing that I cried standing among them, ‘Concerning the resurrection of the dead I am being judged before you today!’”
• Acts 5:17But the high priest rose up, and all those who were with him (which is the sect of the Sadducees), and they were filled with jealousy,
• Acts 19:23About that time there arose no small stir concerning the Way.
• Neh 2:10When Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly, because a man had come to seek the welfare of the children of Israel.

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