Acts 23:1
AND Paul, earnestly beholding the council, said: Men, brethren, I have lived in all good conscience before God unto this day.
The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)
In The King James Version
In Context
2And the high priest Ananias commanded those who stood by him to smite him on the mouth.
Cross References
Acts 22:1BRETHREN, and fathers, hear my defense, which I now make to you.
Acts 22:30On the morrow, wishing to know the certainty, wherefore he was accused by the Jews, he released him, and commanded the chief priests and all the council to come together; and he brought Paul down, and set him before them.
Acts 24:16Therefore do I also myself strive to have always a conscience void of offense toward God and men.
2 Corinthians 1:12For our glorying is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, did we deport ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.
2 Timothy 1:3I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience, that without ceasing I have remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day;
Matthew Henry on Acts 23:1
The close of the foregoing chapter left Paul in the high priest's court, into which the chief captain (whether to his advantage or no I know not) had removed his cause from the mob; and, if his enemies act there against him with less noise, yet it is with more subtlety. Now here we have, I. Paul's protestation of his own integrity, and of a civil respect to the high priest, however he had upon a sudden spoken warmly to him, and justly, ver. 1-5 . II. Paul's prudent contrivance to get himself clear of them, by… Read the whole commentary →