Acts 5:17
New International Version
Then the high priest and all his associates, who were members of the party of the Sadducees, were filled with jealousy.

New Living Translation
The high priest and his officials, who were Sadducees, were filled with jealousy.

English Standard Version
But the high priest rose up, and all who were with him (that is, the party of the Sadducees), and filled with jealousy

Berean Standard Bible
Then the high priest and all his associates, who belonged to the party of the Sadducees, were filled with jealousy. They went out

Berean Literal Bible
But the high priest, having risen up, and all those with him (being the sect of the Sadducees) were filled with jealousy,

King James Bible
Then the high priest rose up, and all they that were with him, (which is the sect of the Sadducees,) and were filled with indignation,

New King James Version
Then the high priest rose up, and all those who were with him (which is the sect of the Sadducees), and they were filled with indignation,

New American Standard Bible
But the high priest stood up, along with all his associates (that is the sect of the Sadducees), and they were filled with jealousy.

NASB 1995
But the high priest rose up, along with all his associates (that is the sect of the Sadducees), and they were filled with jealousy.

NASB 1977
But the high priest rose up, along with all his associates (that is the sect of the Sadducees), and they were filled with jealousy;

Legacy Standard Bible
But the high priest rose up and those with him (that is the sect of the Sadducees), and they were filled with jealousy.

Amplified Bible
But the high priest stood up, along with all his associates (that is, the sect of the Sadducees), and they were filled with jealousy and resentment.

Christian Standard Bible
Then the high priest rose up. He and all who were with him, who belonged to the party of the Sadducees, were filled with jealousy.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Then the high priest took action. He and all his colleagues, those who belonged to the party of the Sadducees, were filled with jealousy.

American Standard Version
But the high priest rose up, and all they that were with him (which is the sect of the Sadducees), and they were filled with jealousy,

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And The High Priest and all who were with him, who were of the doctrine of the Sadducees, were filled with jealousy.

Contemporary English Version
The high priest and all the other Sadducees who were with him became jealous.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Then the high prist rising up, and all they that were with him, (which is the heresy of the Sadducees,) were filled with envy.

English Revised Version
But the high priest rose up, and all they that were with him (which is the sect of the Sadducees), and they were filled with jealousy,

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The chief priest and the whole party of the Sadducees who were with him were extremely jealous. So they took action

Good News Translation
Then the High Priest and all his companions, members of the local party of the Sadducees, became extremely jealous of the apostles; so they decided to take action.

International Standard Version
Then the high priest and all those from the sect of the Sadducees who were with him were filled with jealousy. So they went out,

Literal Standard Version
And having risen, the chief priest, and all those with him—being the sect of the Sadducees—were filled with zeal,

Majority Standard Bible
Then the high priest and all his associates, who belonged to the party of the Sadducees, were filled with jealousy. They went out

New American Bible
Then the high priest rose up and all his companions, that is, the party of the Sadducees, and, filled with jealousy,

NET Bible
Now the high priest rose up, and all those with him (that is, the religious party of the Sadducees), and they were filled with jealousy.

New Revised Standard Version
Then the high priest took action; he and all who were with him (that is, the sect of the Sadducees), being filled with jealousy,

New Heart English Bible
But 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,

Webster's Bible Translation
Then the high priest rose up, and all they that were with him; (which is the sect of the Sadducees) and were filled with indignation,

Weymouth New Testament
This roused the High Priest. He and all his party--the sect of the Sadducees--were filled with angry jealousy

World English Bible
But 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

Young's Literal Translation
And having risen, the chief priest, and all those with him -- being the sect of the Sadducees -- were filled with zeal,

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Context
The Apostles Arrested and Freed
16Crowds also gathered from the towns around Jerusalem, bringing the sick and those tormented by unclean spirits, and all of them were healed. 17Then the high priest and all his associates, who belonged to the party of the Sadducees, were filled with jealousy. They went out 18and arrested the apostles and put them in the public jail.…

Cross References
Matthew 3:7
But when John saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his place of baptism, he said to them, "You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?

Acts 4:1
While Peter and John were speaking to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple guard and the Sadducees came up to them,

Acts 5:16
Crowds also gathered from the towns around Jerusalem, bringing the sick and those tormented by unclean spirits, and all of them were healed.

Acts 15:5
But 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."


Treasury of Scripture

Then the high priest rose up, and all they that were with him, (which is the sect of the Sadducees,) and were filled with indignation,

the high.

Acts 4:26
The kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord, and against his Christ.

Psalm 2:1-3
Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? …

John 11:47-49
Then gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees a council, and said, What do we? for this man doeth many miracles…

all.

Acts 4:1,2,6
And as they spake unto the people, the priests, and the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees, came upon them, …

Acts 23:6-8
But 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…

indignation.

Acts 7:9
And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him,

Acts 13:45
But 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 17:5
But 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.

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Acts 5
1. After that Ananias and Sapphira his wife,
3. at Peter's rebuke had fallen down dead;
12. and that the rest of the apostles had wrought many miracles;
14. to the increase of the faith;
17. the apostles are again imprisoned;
19. but delivered by an angel bidding them preach openly to all;
21. when, after their teaching accordingly in the temple,
29. and before the council,
33. they are in danger to be killed;
34. but through the advice of Gamaliel, they are kept alive, and are only beaten;
41. for which they glorify God, and cease no day from preaching.














(17) Then the high priest rose up. . . . Probably, as before, Annas or Caiaphas.

Which is the sect of the Sadducees.--The fact, of which this is the only distinct record, is of immense importance as throwing light on the course of action taken by the upper class of priests, both during our Lord's ministry and in the history of this book. From the time of the teaching of John 5:25-29, they must have felt that His doctrine was diametrically opposed to theirs. They made one attempt to turn that doctrine, on which, and almost on which alone, He and the Pharisees were in accord, into ridicule, and were baffled (Matthew 22:23-33). The raising of Lazarus mingled a dogmatic antagonism with the counsels of political expediency (John 11:49-50). The prominence of the Resurrection of Jesus in the teaching of the Apostles now made the Sadducean high priests their most determined opponents. The Pharisees, on the other hand, less exposed now than they had been before to the condemnation passed by our Lord on their unreality and perverted casuistry, were drawing off from those with whom they had for a time coalesced, into a position at first of declared neutrality; then of secret sympathy; then, in many cases, of professed adherence (Acts 15:5).

Filled with indignation.--The word is that elsewhere rendered "zeal," or "envy." Both meanings of the word were probably applicable here. There was "zeal" against the doctrine, "envy" of the popularity of the Apostles.

Verse 17. - But for then, A.V.; they were filled for were filled, A.V.; jealousy for indignation, A.V. The high priest rose up. It was high time for him and his friends the Sadducees to be up and doing, if they wished to stop the spreading of the faith of Jesus Christ and the Resurrection. Which is the sect of the Sadducees (Acts 4:1, 2, note). It does not appear that Annas himself was a Sadducee, but his son was, and hence it is highly probable that the Sadducees should have attached themselves to Annas, and made a tool of him for suppressing the doctrine of the Resurrection. The sect; αἵρεσις (see Acts 15:5; Acts 24:5, 14; Acts 26:4; Acts 28:22). The word was applied first by Jews to Christians, and then by Christians to sects (1 Corinthians 11:19; Galatians 5:20; 2 Peter 2:1). Jealousy scarcely so well expresses the idea of ζῆλος here as indignation does. In the First Epistle of Clement, ζῆλος is applied to the anger of Cain, of Joseph's brethren, of the Israelites against Moses, of the persecution of St. Peter and St. Paul (iv., 5.). It is only occasionally that it means that kind of anger which we call jealousy. The high priest and his party were indignant at the defiance of their authority, and at the success of the doctrine which they had made it a special object to put down.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
Then
δὲ (de)
Conjunction
Strong's 1161: A primary particle; but, and, etc.

the
(ho)
Article - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

high priest
ἀρχιερεὺς (archiereus)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 749: High priest, chief priest. From arche and hiereus; the high-priest; by extension a chief priest.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

all
πάντες (pantes)
Adjective - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 3956: All, the whole, every kind of. Including all the forms of declension; apparently a primary word; all, any, every, the whole.

his associates
οἱ (hoi)
Article - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

(who
(hē)
Article - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

belonged
οὖσα (ousa)
Verb - Present Participle Active - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 1510: I am, exist. The first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist.

to the
τῶν (tōn)
Article - Genitive Masculine Plural
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

party
αἵρεσις (hairesis)
Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 139: From haireomai; properly, a choice, i.e. a party or disunion.

of the Sadducees)
Σαδδουκαίων (Saddoukaiōn)
Noun - Genitive Masculine Plural
Strong's 4523: Probably from Sadok; a Sadducaean, or follower of a certain heretical Israelite.

rose up
Ἀναστὰς (Anastas)
Verb - Aorist Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 450: To raise up, set up; I rise from among (the) dead; I arise, appear. From ana and histemi; to stand up.

with
ἐπλήσθησαν (eplēsthēsan)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Passive - 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 4130: To fill, fulfill, complete. A prolonged form of a primary pleo to 'fill' (imbue, influence, supply); specially, to fulfil.

jealousy.
ζήλου (zēlou)
Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular
Strong's 2205: From zeo; properly, heat, i.e. 'zeal' (figuratively, of God), or an enemy, malice).


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