The Sadducees: Persecuted the Christians

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,

Then the high priest and all his associates, who belonged to the party of the Sadducees, were filled with jealousy. They went out

…and arrested the apostles and put them in the public jail.

At this, they yielded to Gamaliel. They called the apostles in and had them flogged. Then they ordered them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and released them.