Acts 23:3
Paul said to him, “God will hit you, you whitewashed wall! You're sitting there to judge me according to the law, and yet you order me to be hit in contravention of the law!”
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2Ananias the high priest ordered the officers standing beside Paul to hit him on the mouth.
4The officers standing beside Paul said, “How dare you insult the high priest!”
Cross References
Leviticus 19:35Don't use dishonest weights and measures.
Psalms 58:1You leaders, do you really say what is right? Do you judge people fairly?
Psalms 94:20Can unjust judges really be on your side, Lord, when their corrupt use of the law causes misery?
Amos 5:7You twist justice and make it bitter, you throw integrity to the ground.
Matthew 23:27What a disaster is coming on you religious teachers and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, looking good on the outside, but on the inside full of skeletons and all kinds of rottenness.
John 18:24Annas sent him, his hands still tied, to Caiaphas the high priest.
Matthew Henry on Acts 23:2-6
Paul's Second Defence. 1 And Paul, earnestly beholding the council, said, Men and brethren, I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day. 2 And the high priest Ananias commanded them that stood by him to smite him on the mouth. 3 Then said Paul unto him, God shall smite thee, thou whited wall: for sittest thou to judge me after the law, and commandest me to be smitten contrary to the law? 4 And they that stood by said, Revilest thou God's high priest? 5 Then said Paul, I wist not, brethren, that… Read the whole commentary →