4. The men close to Paul said to him, “You are insulting God's High Priest!”
5. Paul answered, “My fellow-Israelites, I did not know that he was the High Priest. The scripture says, ‘You must not speak evil of the ruler of your people.’ ”
6. When Paul saw that some of the group were Sadducees and the others were Pharisees, he called out in the Council, “Fellow-Israelites! I am a Pharisee, the son of Pharisees. I am on trial here because of the hope I have that the dead will rise to life!”
7. As soon as he said this, the Pharisees and Sadducees started to quarrel, and the group was divided.
8. (For the Sadducees say that people will not rise from death and that there are no angels or spirits; but the Pharisees believe in all three.)
9. The shouting became louder, and some of the teachers of the Law who belonged to the party of the Pharisees stood up and protested strongly: “We cannot find anything wrong with this man! Perhaps a spirit or an angel really did speak to him!”