Acts 23:1
With a stedfast gaze at the Sanhedrin, Paul said, "Brothers, I have lived with a good conscience before God to this day."
Montgomery New Testament
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2Then the High Priest Ananias ordered those who stood near Paul to strike him on the mouth.
Cross References
Acts 22:1"Brothers and fathers, listen to the defense which I now make in your presence."
Acts 22:30The next day, as he wished to learn the real reason why the Jews accused Paul, he unbound him, and commanded the chief priests and all the Sanhedrin to come together, and brought Paul down, and placed him before them.
Acts 24:16"Hence I too endeavor to have a conscience void of offense toward God and men alway.
2 Corinthians 1:12For this is my proud boast, the testimony of my conscience, that it was in holiness and with pure motives before God, not in worldly wisdom, but in the grace of God, that I have conducted myself in the world, and above all in my relations with you.
2 Timothy 1:3I give thanks to God whom I worship with a pure conscience as my fathers did, when I remember you unceasingly in my prayers.
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 →