Acts 23:9 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Let us not fight against God.— When they mentioned it as a supposable case, that an angel might have spoken to him, they might probably allude to the many visions and revelations which St. Paul, in his late speech to the people, had professed to have received. Gamaliel was now dead, otherwise one would have supposed that he had made this speech, it being so very like that which he is recorded to have made, ch. Acts 5:39. Party spirit now carried the Pharisees to say the same things concerning Christianity, which policy and the national expectations led Gamaliel to say in the place above cited. Instead of cry in the first clause, several render it, clamour.