Acts 23:3-5

Modern English Version

³ Then Paul said to him, “God will strike you, you whitewashed wall! Do you sit judging me according to the law, yet order me to be struck contrary to the law?”

⁴ Those who stood by said, “Do you criticize God’s high priest?”

⁵ Paul said, “Brothers, I did not know that he was the high priest. For it is written, ‘You shall not speak evil of the ruler of your people.’^[a]”