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The men standing near Paul said to him, “You cannot insult God’s high priest like that!”

Paul said, “Brothers, I did not know this man was the high priest. It is written in the Scriptures, ‘You must not curse a leader of your people.’”[a]

Some of the men in the meeting were Sadducees, and others were Pharisees. Knowing this, Paul shouted to them, “My brothers, I am a Pharisee, and my father was a Pharisee. I am on trial here because I believe that people will rise from the dead.”

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Footnotes

  1. 23:5 ‘You . . . people.’ Quotation from Exodus 22:28.

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