Acts 23:3
Then said Paul unto him, God shall strike you, you whitewashed wall: for sit you to judge me after the law, and command me to be smitten contrary to the law?
Updated King James Version
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In Context
2And the high priest Ananias commanded them that stood by him to strike him on the mouth.
4And they that stood by said, Revile you God's high priest?
Cross References
Leviticus 19:35All of you shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measuring rod, in weight, or in measure.
Psalms 58:1Do all of you indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do all of you judge uprightly, O all of you sons of men?
Psalms 94:20Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with you, which frames mischief by a law?
Amos 5:7All of you who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,
Matthew 23:27Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for all of you are like unto whitewashed sepulchers, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.
John 18:24Now Annas had sent him bound unto 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 →