Acts 5:17

Now the high priest rose up, and all those with him (that is, the religious party of the Sadducees ¹ ), ²  and they were filled with jealousy. ³ 

1Sa 18:12-16; Job 5:2; Ps 2:1-3; Pr 14:30; Pr 27:4; Ec 4:4; Mt 27:18; Joh 11:47-49; Joh 12:10,19; Ac 4:1,2,6; Ac 4:26; Ac 7:9; Ac 13:45; Ac 17:5; Ac 23:6-8; Ga 5:21; Jas 3:14-16; Jas 4:5; 1Pe 2:1

¹ sn See the note on Sadducees in 4:1.

² sn This is a parenthetical note by the author.

³ sn Filled with jealousy. In Acts, the term “jealousy” (ζήλος, zhlos) occurs only here and in Acts 13:45. It is a key term in Judaism for religiously motivated rage (1 Macc 2:24; 1QH 14:13-15; m. Sanhedrin 9:5). It was a zeal motivated by a desire to maintain the purity of the faith.