Acts 5:17

The high priest and the Sadducees, filled with jealousy, move against the apostles. Opposition arises from envy of the gospel's success.

Cross-references · 22

• Acts 13:45But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy, and they blasphemously contradicted what Paul was saying.
• Acts 17:5The Jews, however, became jealous. So they brought in some troublemakers from the marketplace, formed a mob, and sent the city into an uproar. They raided Jason’s house in search of Paul and Silas, hoping to bring them out to the people.
• Acts 7:9Because the patriarchs were jealous of Joseph, they sold him as a slave into Egypt. But God was with him
• 1 Pet 2:1Rid yourselves, therefore, of all malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander.
• Ps 2:1–3Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?
• John 11:47–49Then the chief priests and Pharisees convened the Sanhedrin and said, “What are we to do? This man is performing many signs.
• Matt 27:18For he knew it was out of envy that they had handed Jesus over to him.
• Job 5:2For resentment kills a fool, and envy slays the simple.
• 1 Sam 18:12–16So Saul was afraid of David, because the LORD was with David but had departed from Saul.
• Eccl 4:4I saw that all labor and success spring from a man’s envy of his neighbor. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.
• John 12:10So the chief priests made plans to kill Lazarus as well,
• Prov 27:4Wrath is cruel and anger is like a flood, but who can withstand jealousy?
• Prov 14:30A tranquil heart is life to the body, but envy rots the bones.
• Acts 4:6along with Annas the high priest, Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and many others from the high priest’s family.
• Acts 4:1–2While Peter and John were speaking to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple guard and the Sadducees came up to them,
• Gal 5:21and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
• Jas 3:14–16But if you harbor bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast in it or deny the truth.
• Acts 23:6–8Then Paul, knowing that some of them were Sadducees and others Pharisees, called out in the Sanhedrin, “Brothers, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee. It is because of my hope in the resurrection of the dead that I am on trial.”
• John 12:19Then the Pharisees said to one another, “You can see that this is doing you no good. Look how the whole world has gone after Him!”
• Acts 4:26The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers gather together against the Lord and against His Anointed One.’
• Jas 4:5Or do you think the Scripture says without reason that the Spirit He caused to dwell in us yearns with envy?
• Acts 15:5But some believers from the party of the Pharisees stood up and declared, “The Gentiles must be circumcised and required to obey the law of Moses.”

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