Acts 4:2 - Exposition

Sore troubled for grieved, A.V.; because for that, A.V.; proclaimed in Jesus for preached through Jesus, A.V. The preaching the resurrection of the Lord Jesus as the "First fruits of them that slept," would be especially obnoxious to the Sadducees, "which deny that there is any resurrection" ( Luke 20:27 ). The Sadducees were at this time in power (see Acts 5:17 ; and comp. Acts 23:1-35 . 6-8); and we learn from Josephus ('Ant. Jud.,'20. 9. 1) that the son of this Annas (or Anauus) went over to the sect of the Sadducees, being himself high priest as his father had been.