Acts 5:17
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.

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,

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

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

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Then the high priest rising up, and all they that were with him (which is the heresy of the Sadducees) were filled with envy.

the high.

Acts 4:26 The kings of the earth stood up: and the princes assembled together against the Lord and his Christ.

Psalm 2:1-3 Why have the Gentiles raged, and the people devised vain things? . . .

John 11:47-49 The chief priests, therefore, and the Pharisees gathered a council and said: What do we, for this man doth many miracles? . . .

John 12:10,19 But the chief priests thought to kill Lazarus also: . . .

all.

Acts 4:1,2,6 And as they were speaking to the people the priests and the officer of the temple and the Sadducees came upon them, . . .

Acts 23:6-8 And Paul, knowing that the one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, cried out in the council: Men, brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of Pharisees: concerning the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question. . . .

indignation.

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

Acts 13:45 And the Jews, seeing the multitudes, were filled with envy and contradicted those things which were said by Paul, blaspheming.

Acts 17:5 But the Jews, moved with envy and taking unto them some wicked men of the vulgar sort and making a tumult, set the city in an uproar: and besetting Jason's house, sought to bring them out unto the people.

1 Samuel 18:12-16 And Saul feared David, because the Lord was with him, and was departed from Saul himself. . . .

Job 5:2 Anger indeed killeth the foolish, and envy slayeth the little one.

Proverbs 14:30 Soundness of heart is the life of the flesh: but envy is the rottenness of the bones.

Proverbs 27:4 Anger hath no mercy: nor fury, when it breaketh forth: and who can bear the violence of one provoked?

Ecclesiastes 4:4 Again I considered all the labours of men, and I remarked that their industries are exposed to the envy of their neighbour: so in this also there is vanity, and fruitless care.

Matthew 27:18 For he knew that for envy they had delivered him.

Galatians 5:21 Envies, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like. Of the which I foretell you, as I have foretold to you, that they who do such things shall not obtain the kingdom of God.

James 3:14-16 But if you have bitter zeal, and there be contention in your hearts: glory not and be not liars against the truth. . . .

James 4:5 Or do you think that the scripture saith in vain: To envy doth the spirit covet which dwelleth in you?

1 Peter 2:1 Wherefore laying away all malice and all guile and dissimulations and envies and all detractions,

Context
The Apostles Arrested and Freed
16And there came also together to Jerusalem a multitude out of the neighbouring cities, bringing sick persons and such as were troubled with unclean spirits: who were all healed. 17Then the high priest rising up, and all they that were with him (which is the heresy of the Sadducees) were filled with envy. 18And they laid hands on the apostles and put them in the common prison.…
Cross References
Matthew 3:7
And seeing many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them: Ye brood of vipers, who hath shewed you to flee from the wrath to come?

Acts 4:1
And as they were speaking to the people the priests and the officer of the temple and the Sadducees came upon them,

Acts 5:16
And there came also together to Jerusalem a multitude out of the neighbouring cities, bringing sick persons and such as were troubled with unclean spirits: who were all healed.

Acts 15:5
But there arose of the sect of the Pharisees some that believed, saying: They must be circumcised and be commanded to observe the law of Moses.

Acts 5:16
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