Acts 23:3
Then said Paul to him, “God will strike you, you whitewashed wall. Are you sitting to judge me by the law, yet order me to be struck, against the law?”
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2The high priest Ananias commanded those who stood by him to strike him on the mouth.
4Those who stood by said, “Is this how you insult God's high priest?”
Cross References
Leviticus 19:35Do not use false measures when measuring length, weight, or quantity.
Psalms 58:1Do you rulers speak righteousness? 1 Do you judge uprightly, you people? 1
Psalms 94:20Can a throne of destruction be allied with you, 1 one who creates injustice by statute? 1
Amos 5:7Those people turn justice into a bitter thing 1 and throw righteousness down to the ground!” 1
Matthew 23:27Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs, which on the outside look beautiful, but on the inside are full of dead men's bones and everything unclean.
John 18:24Then Annas sent him tied up 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 →