I find it humorous that when the Sadducees publicly jailed the apostles, God freed them and then had them preach in the Temple, the center of their power. It was enough to make them murderous. However, they had killed Jesus and it seemed that decision didn't stop His message, so it makes sense to me why they listened to Gamaliel’s advice. Advice that sometimes Christians need to listen to. Yes, there is a time to confront false teachings, we see Paul and the apostles doing that in the Epistles but there seems to be this human reaction to "shoot first and ask questions later." So let's learn from this sometimes the right thing to do is to wait. If it isn't from God it will eventually fail.
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