Acts 23:3 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

³ Then Paul said to the head priest, “God will hit you, you white-washed wall [i.e., you hypocrite]. Are you sitting in judgment over me according to the Law of Moses and [yet] do you order me to be hit contrary to that law?”

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ 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 law?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ 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?

American Standard Version (1901)

³ Then said Paul unto him, God shall smite thee, thou whited wall: and sittest thou to judge me according to the law, and commandest me to be smitten contrary to the law?

Common English Bible

³ Then Paul said to him, “God is about to strike you, you whitewashed wall! You sit and judge me according to the Law, yet disobey the Law by ordering that I be struck.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ Then Paul said to him: "God shall strike you, you whitewashed wall! For would you sit and judge me according to the law, when, contrary to the law, you order me to be struck?"

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ Then Paul said to him: God shall strike thee, thou whited wall. For sittest thou to judge me according to the law, and contrary to the law commandest me to be struck?

Acts 23:3 Cross References

John 18:24

So, Annas had Him tied up and sent Him [on] to Caiaphas, the head priest.

John 7:51

“Does our law pass judgment on a man before first hearing from him and learning what he did?”

Acts 23:4

Those who stood nearby replied, “Are you insulting God's head priest?”