“And as they spake unto the people, the priests, and the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees, came upon them,”
The priests and the captain of the temple guard and the Sadducees came up to Peter and John as they were speaking to the people — the religious establishment's opposition emerges immediately; the priests (hiereis, priests, temple officials), temple guard captain (stratēgos, commander, military officer), and Sadducees (Sadducees, the rationalist, priestly party) are threatened by the apostles' public teaching and popular influence. The Sadducees' opposition specifically is noted; they denied resurrection (23:8), making the apostolic proclamation of Jesus' resurrection intolerable.
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