Actes 23:4

4 Or, ceux qui étaient présents, lui dirent: Injuries-tu le souverain sacrificateur de Dieu

Actes 23:4 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 23:4

And they that stood by
The members of the sanhedrim that were next to the apostle; or the servants of the high priest, since they are said to stand, whereas those of that court sat: said,

revilest thou God's high priest?
which seems to confirm that the apostle's words were not a bare prediction, but an imprecation, since they are charged with reproaching, reviling, and speaking evil of him; and the aggravation of which was not only that the person reviled was a priest, an high priest, but an high priest of God; though this could not have been proved, for there was now no high priest of God but Jesus Christ; the priesthood was changed and abrogated, and there were no more high priests among men of God's appointing and approving.

Actes 23:4 In-Context

2 Sur cela, le souverain sacrificateur Ananias commanda à ceux qui étaient près de lui, de le frapper au visage.

3 Alors Paul lui dit: Dieu te frappera, muraille blanchie; car tu es assis pour me juger selon la loi; et, transgressant la loi, tu commandes qu'on me frappe.

4 Or, ceux qui étaient présents, lui dirent: Injuries-tu le souverain sacrificateur de Dieu

5 Paul répondit: Frères, je ne savais pas que ce fût le souverain sacrificateur; car il est écrit: Tu ne maudiras point le prince de ton peuple.

6 Or Paul, sachant qu'une partie des juges étaient Sadducéens, et l'autre Pharisiens, s'écria dans le Sanhédrin: Hommes frères, je suis Pharisien, fils de Pharisien, et mis en cause pour l'espérance et la résurrection des morts.