“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,”
Then the high priest and all his associates, who were members of the party of the Sadducees, were filled with jealousy - the opposition is now institutional and theological, not spontaneous. The 'party of the Sadducees' (hairesis tōn Saddoukaīōn) were the priestly party who denied resurrection; the apostles' proclamation of Jesus's resurrection strikes at the core of Sadducean theology. The 'jealousy' (zēlos) here has a possessive quality—they jealously guard the temple's spiritual authority.
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