Acts 23:1
Paul behelde the counsell and sayde: men and brethre I have lived in all good coscience before God vntill this daye.
William Tyndale Bible (1525/1530)
In The King James Version
In Context
2The hye prest Ananias comaunded the that stode by to smyte him on the mouth.
Cross References
Acts 22:1Ye men brethre and fathers heare myne answere which I make vnto you.
Acts 22:30On the morowe because he wolde have knowen the certayntie wherfore he was accused of the Iewes he lowsed him from his bondes and commaunded the hye Prestes and all the counsell to come together and brought Paul and set him before them.
Acts 24:16And therfore stody I to have a cleare consciece towarde God and toward man also.
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 →