Acts 23:6-10

When Paul saw. The Council [Sanhedrin] was made up of both parties. The teachers of the Law were Pharisees, and the chief priests were usually Sadducees. It was the teaching about the raising from death that made the Sadducees so angry against the Gospel (see Acts 4:2). Alford (Greek Testament) says: "All prospect for a fair trial was hopeless. Paul well knew from experience that personal odium [hatred] would bias his judges, and violence prevail over justice. He therefore uses in the cause of truth the maxim [principle of action] so often perverted to the use of falsehood, Divide and conquer. " "I am on trial here because I hope that the dead will rise to life!" And the group was divided. This puts the Pharisees on Paul's side against the Sadducees. We cannot find a thing wrong with this man! They find they have more in common with Paul, than with the Sadducees. Perhaps a spirit or an angel. This is a "slap" at the Sadducees, who believed in neither (Acts 23:8). The argument became so violent. They had argued this question many times, and there was no way one side could agree with the other. To protect Paul, he is taken into the Castle of Antonia (which was a fort).