Strove (διεμαχοντο). Imperfect middle of διαμαχομα, old Attic verb, to fight it out (between, back and forth, fiercely). Here only…

A great cry. A great clamor and tumult.

The scribes. The learned men. They would naturally be the chief speakers.

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Let us not fight against God.—If we could receive these words as part of the original text, they would be a remarkably ch…

Paul’s declaration served to divide the council, with Sadducees on the one side (cf. comment on 4:1) and Pharisees on the other (cf. comment on 5:3…

There was a great cry. That sedition about which Luke spoke a little before is more plainly expressed in this place; namely, that they wer…

And there arose a great cry
Or noise, a loud clamour; they began to be very noisy, and to talk loud, and in high spi…

The Pharisees were correct in the faith of the Jewish church. The Sadducees were no friends to Scripture or divine revelation. They denied a future…