Acts 23:2-4

Contemporary English Version

² Then Ananias the high priest ordered the men standing beside Paul to hit him on the mouth. ^3 (A) Paul turned to the high priest and said, “You whitewashed wall!^[a] God will hit you. You sit there to judge me by the Law of Moses. But at the same time you order men to break the Law by hitting me.”

⁴ The men standing beside Paul asked, “Don't you know you are insulting God's high priest?”