<p>5:34 <i>But a Pharisee in the council</i>- See on :17 <em>The Sadducees</em>.</p><p><i>Named Gamaliel, a teacher of the law held in honour by all the people, stood up and gave orders to put the men outside for a little while</i>- Paul had been his student. Yet Paul differed from him regarding the Christians, for he was for persecuting and destroying them rather than following his teacher's advice of leaving them alone (:38). This difference with the respected Gamaliel was surely one of the many goads in Paul's conscience that was intended to lead him to accept Jesus as Christ.</p>