Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
Which is the sect of the Sadducees (h ousa airesiv twn Saddoukaiwn). Literally, "the existing sect of the Sadducees" or "the sect which is of the Sadducees," h being the article, not the relative. airesiv means a choosing, from aireomai, to take for oneself, to choose, then an opinion chosen or tenet (possibly 2 Peter 2:1), then parties or factions (Galatians 5:20; 1 Corinthians 11:19; possibly 2 Peter 2:1). It is applied here to the Sadducees; to the Pharisees in Acts 15:5; Acts 26:5; to the Christians in Acts 24:5-14; Acts 28:22. Already Luke has stated that the Sadducees started the persecution of Peter and John (Acts 4:1 f.). Now it is extended to "the apostles" as a whole since Christianity has spread more rapidly in Jerusalem than before it began.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Acts 5:40
Acts 6:7
Acts 7:9
Acts 24:5
1 Corinthians 3:3
Titus 3:10
James 3:14
2 Peter 2:1
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