Wise as Serpents - harmless as doves

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Acts 16:35 And when it was day, the magistrates sent the serjeants, saying,Let those men go.
36 And the keeper of the prison told this saying to Paul, The magistrateshave sent to let you go: now therefore depart, and go in peace.
37 But Paul said unto them, They have beaten us openly uncondemned, beingRomans, and have cast us into prison; and now do they thrust us out privily?nay verily; but let them come themselves and fetch us out.
38 And the serjeants told these words unto the magistrates: and they feared,when they heard that they were Romans.
39 And they came and besought them, and brought them out, and desired themto depart out of the city.
40 And they went out of the prison, and entered into the house of Lydia:and when they had seen the brethren, they comforted them, and departed.

Acts 23:6 But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees, andthe other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men and brethren, I ama Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee: of the hope and resurrection of the deadI am called in question.
7 And when he had so said, there arose a dissension between the Phariseesand the Sadducees: and the multitude was divided.
8 For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, neither angel, norspirit: but the Pharisees confess both.
9 And there arose a great cry: and the scribes that were of the Pharisees'part arose, and strove, saying, We find no evil in this man: but if a spiritor an angel hath spoken to him, let us not fight against God.
10 And when there arose a great dissension, the chief captain, fearing lestPaul should have been pulled in pieces of them, commanded the soldiers togo down, and to take him by force from among them, and to bring him intothe castle.
11 And the night following the Lord stood by him, and said, Be of good cheer,Paul: for as thou hast testifie