Commentaries:
People's Commentary (NT)
Acts 23:6
Perceived that the one part were Sadducees, and the other Pharisees.
When the Savior was condemned, the Sanhedrin was composed of both
parties, and now, nearly thirty years later, we find the same. The
chief priests, as a rule, were Sadducees, while the scribes were mainly
of the Pharisees.
I am a Pharisee, etc. Alford, says, concerning his declaration:
``All prospect for a fair trial was hopeless. Paul well knew
from experience that personal odium would bias his judges,
and violence prevail over justice. He therefore uses in the
cause of truth the maxim so often perverted to the use of
falsehood, "Divide and conquer".'
Of the hope and resurrection of the dead. It was the doctrine of
the resurrection that especially inflamed the Sadducees against the
gospel (see PNT "Ac 4:2"). This was the ground of battle between
the two sects, and Paul, himself once a Pharisee, now preaching a
gospel of which the great fact is the resurrection, not only avails
himself of the opportunity to proclaim the fundamental truth of
Christianity, but in so doing divides his enemies.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Acts 9:1
Acts 23:6
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