Acts 4:1

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Acts 4:1–3 · Berean Standard Bible

1 While Peter and John were speaking to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple guard and the Sadducees came up to them,

2 greatly disturbed that they were teaching the people and proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection of the dead.

3 They seized Peter and John, and because it was evening, they put them in custody until the next day.

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2 Chronicles 23:7

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Then Paul, knowing that some of them were Sadducees and others Pharisees, called out in the Sanhedrin, “Brothers, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee. It is because of my hope in the resurrection of the dead that I am on trial.”

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