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Acts 23:2
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1 Then Paul, looking earnestly at the council, said, “Men and brethren, aI have lived in all good conscience before God until this day.”  
2 And the high priest Ananias commanded those who stood by him ato strike him on the mouth.  
3 Then Paul said to him, “God will strike you, you whitewashed wall! For you sit to judge me according to the law, and ado you command me to be struck contrary to the law?”  
4 And those who stood by said, “Do you revile God’s high priest?”
5 Then Paul said, a“I did not know, brethren, that he was the high priest; for it is written, b‘You shall not speak evil of a ruler of your people.’ ”  
6 But when Paul perceived that one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, “Men and brethren, aI am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee; bconcerning the hope and resurrection of the dead I am being judged!”  
7 And when he had said this, a dissension arose between the Pharisees and the Sadducees; and the assembly was divided.
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Acts 23:2

Acts 23:2 To strike him on the mouth. The high priest flamed up in an instant at the statement of Paul that he had acted in good conscience. "How could such a renegade from Judaism be conscientious"? It is common in the despotic East to order the mouths that are supposed to have spoken falsely to be smitten. Ananias was high priest at this time, but was removed on a charge brought by King Agrippa in AD 59 (Acts 25:13). He was at last assassinated.




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