Acts 4:2

being grieved Better, being troubled. The word signifies thoroughly pained. It is used (Acts 16:18) of St Paul's feeling when the "damsel possessed with a spirit of divination" cried after him at Philippi.

that they taught the people One objection which the scribes and priests would feel towards the Apostles would be that they were "unlearned and ignorant men" (Acts 4:13), and so not deemed fit to teach.

and preached through Jesus the resurrection from the dead Better, and published in Jesus. This would rouse the feelings of the Sadducees. The resurrection is said to be inJesus, because His resurrection was a pledge that all should rise. "In Christ all shall be made alive" (1 Corinthians 15:22). The language of the Apostles in the Acts does not dwell on this as a consequence of the resurrection of Jesus, for like all Jewish teaching, what they said was historical rather than doctrinal.