Acts 23:1-6

1 And looking intently at the council, Paul said, “Brothers, ¹I have lived my life before God in all good conscience up to this day. ”

2 And the high priest ²Ananias commanded those who stood by him ³to strike him on the mouth.

3 Then Paul said to him, “God is going to strike you, you ⁴whitewashed ⁵wall! Are you sitting to judge me according to the law, and yet ⁶contrary to the law you ⁷order me to be struck? ”

4 Those who stood by said, “Would you revile ⁸God’s high priest? ”

5 And Paul said, ⁹“I did not know, brothers, that he was the high priest, for it is written, ¹⁰‘You shall not speak evil of a ruler of your people. ’”

6 Now when Paul perceived that one part were ¹¹Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, “Brothers, ¹²I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. It is ¹³with respect to the ¹⁴hope and the resurrection of the dead that I am on trial. ”

Cross References

• 1. 23:1 2 Cor. 1:12; 2 Tim. 1:3; [ch. 24:16; Job 27:5, 6; 1 Cor. 4:4; 2 Cor. 4:2; 5:11; Heb. 13:18]
• 2. 23:2 ch. 24:1
• 3. 23:2 1 Kgs. 22:24; Lam. 3:30; Mic. 5:1; 2 Cor. 11:20
• 4. 23:3 [Matt. 23:27]
• 5. 23:3 [Isa. 30:13; Ezek. 13:10-14]
• 6. 23:3 Deut. 25:1, 2; See John 7:51
• 7. 23:3 Deut. 25:1, 2; See John 7:51
• 8. 23:4 [1 Sam. 2:28; Ps. 106:16]
• 9. 23:5 [ch. 24:1]
• 10. 23:5 Cited from Ex. 22:28
• 11. 23:6 See Matt. 22:23
• 12. 23:6 ch. 26:5; Phil. 3:5
• 13. 23:6 ch. 24:15, 21; 26:6-8; 28:20
• 14. 23:6 [ch. 2:26, 27]; See Col. 1:5