Acts 23:9

"We find nothing wrong with this man": "The Pharisees were immediately inclined to concede that. man who was so sound on central Pharisaic doctrine could not be so bad at heart after all; the Sadducees were more enraged than ever, at this public invocation of what was in their eyes. new-fangled heresy" (Bruce p. 453). Compare with Luke 20:39. "Suppose. spirit or an angel had spoken to him?": This may not have been an intentional barb on the part of the Pharisees against the Sadducees but an honest conviction. Some Pharisees even conceded that. divine being or angel may have indeed spoken to Paul. "The Sadducees, of course, repudiated the very possibility that such communications could be made" (Bruce p. 454). Of course, such. pronouncement did nothing but throw more fuel on the fire.