ACTS Chapter 23 -- PAULS DEFENSE BEFORE THE SANHEDRIN BEFORE THE SANHEDRIN -- Acts 23:1-10 Then Paul, gazing earnestly at the council (Sanhedrin), said, Brethren, I have lived before God, doing my duty with a perfectly good conscience until this very day [as a citizen, a true and loyal Jew]. -- 23:1 At this the high priest Ananias ordered those who stood near him to strike him on the mouth. -- 23:2 Then Paul said to him, God is about to strike you, you whitewashed wall! Do you sit as a judge to try me in accordance with the Law, and yet in defiance of the Law you order me to be struck? -- 23:3 Those who stood near exclaimed, Do you rail at and insult the high priest of God? -- 23:4 And Paul said, I was not conscious, brethren, that he was a high priest; for the Scripture says, You shall not speak ill of a ruler of your people [Exod. 22:28.] -- 23:5 But Paul, when he perceived that one part of them were Sadducees and the other part Pharisees, cried out to the council (Sanhedrin), Brethren, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees; it is with regard to the hope and the resurrection of the dead that I am indicted and being judged. -- 23:6 So when he had said this, an angry dispute arose between the Pharisees and the Sadducees; and the whole [crowded] assemblage was divided [into two factions]. -- 23:7 (The tribune set Paul before the supreme Jewish court, not to try him but to get evidence, 22:30. Ananias, 2, was high priest in the reigns of Claudius [A.D. 41-54] and Nero [A.D. 54-68]. He was assassinated in A.D. 66. Whitewashed wall, 3, was an apt metaphor to apply to the hypocritical high priest, who broke Jewish law by commanding Paul to be struck even before he was proved guilty. -- New Ungers Bible Handbook)
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