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Acts 23:4 Meaning & Commentary – Speaking Against Authority
And they that stood by said, Revilest thou God's high priest?
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And they that stood by said, Revilest thou God's high priest?
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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…
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And the high priest Ananias commanded them that stood by him to smite him on the mouth.
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And Paul, earnestly beholding the council, said, Men and brethren, I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day.
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On the morrow, because he would have known the certainty wherefore he was accused of the Jews, he loosed him from his bands, and commanded the chief priests and all…
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Then straightway they departed from him which should have examined him: and the chief captain also was afraid, after he knew that he was a Roman, and because he had…
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And the chief captain answered, With a great sum obtained I this freedom. And Paul said, But I was free born.
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Then the chief captain came, and said unto him, Tell me, art thou a Roman? He said, Yea.
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When the centurion heard that, he went and told the chief captain, saying, Take heed what thou doest: for this man is a Roman.
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And as they bound him with thongs, Paul said unto the centurion that stood by, Is it lawful for you to scourge a man that is a Roman, and uncondemned?