Therefore I exhort you, be imitators of me

Good morning. Not everyone was happy because of the lame man getting healed, especially since they were talking about Jesus and the resurrection. As they were speaking to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple guard and the Sadducees (The Sadducees did not believe in the resurrection – that was why they were so sad, you see) came up to them, being greatly disturbed because they were teaching the people and proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection from the dead. Isn’t that the first amendment to the constitution – oh that’s right, they didn’t have a constitution. By the way, the first amendment was not written to protect speech you agree with – it was to protect speech you disagree with. And they laid hands on them and put them in jail until the next day, for it was already evening. But many of those who had heard the message believed; and the number of the men came to be about 5000. That’s even more than on the day of Pentecost, which was about 3000. On the next day, their rulers and elders and scribes were gathered together in Jerusalem; and Annas the high priest was there, and Caiaphas and John and Alexander and all who were of high priestly descent. Had he gone into his father’s “line of work“ John the Baptist may have been one of them. His father was burning incense on the day the angel appeared to him, and only those who were descended from Aaron the high priest could to do that. His mother was also referred to as a daughter of Aaron; so she was of high priestly descent. That would mean that John was also of high priestly descent. Peter and John were not members of the “club“, so whatever they said or did was look upon with skepticism. It’s just like political groups today. Father continue to go with the reader and his/her daughter. Work everything out in Your perfect time and order.