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 multitudes, they were filled with envy, and spake against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.
• Acts 17:5But the Jews which believed not, moved with envy, took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, and gathered a company, and set all the city on an uproar, and assaulted the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people.
• Acts 7:9And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him,
• 1 Pet 2:1Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
• Ps 2:1–3Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
• John 11:47–49Then gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees a council, and said, What do we? for this man doeth many miracles.
• Matt 27:18For he knew that for envy they had delivered him.
• Job 5:2For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.
• 1 Sam 18:12–16And Saul was afraid of David, because the LORD was with him, and was departed from Saul.
• Eccl 4:4Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
• John 12:10But the chief priests consulted that they might put Lazarus also to death;
• Prov 27:4Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?
• Prov 14:30A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.
• Acts 4:6And Annas the high priest, and Caiaphas, and John, and Alexander, and as many as were of the kindred of the high priest, were gathered together at Jerusalem.
• Acts 4:1–2And as they spake unto the people, the priests, and the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees, came upon them,
• Gal 5:21Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
• Jas 3:14–16But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
• Acts 23:6–8But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee: of the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question.
• John 12:19The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, Perceive ye how ye prevail nothing? behold, the world is gone after him.
• Acts 4:26The kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord, and against his Christ.
• Jas 4:5Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?
• Acts 15:5But there rose up certain of the sect of the Pharisees which believed, saying, That it was needful to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses.

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