Acts 23:9

And there arose a great cry[Rev. Ver.clamour] The noise was of an excited mob. It is the same word that is used in the parable of the Ten Virgins, to describe the shout "the bridegroom cometh."

and the scribes that were of the Pharisees" part The best authorities read " some of the scribes of the Pharisees" part."

let us not fight against God These words are not found in the oldest MSS, and it may be that St Luke left the sentence as an incomplete exclamation. This the Rev. Ver.has endeavoured to represent by rendering the preceding clause "And what if a Spirit hath spoken to him, or an angel." The temper of these Pharisees is so very much akin to the counsel of Gamaliel in chap. Acts 5:39, that it is not difficult to understand how a thoughtful reader filled up on his margin the unfinished exclamation by an adaptation of Gamaliel's language, and that these words found their way in a short time into the text.