Acts 23:4 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

⁴ Those who stood nearby replied, “Are you insulting God's head priest?”

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ And they that stood by said, Revilest thou God's high priest?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ Those who stood near exclaimed, Do you rail at and insult the high priest of God?

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ And they that stood by said, Revilest thou God’s high priest?

Common English Bible

⁴ Those standing near him asked, “You dare to insult God’s high priest?”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ And those who were standing nearby said, "Are you speaking evil about the high priest of God?"

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ And they that stood by said: Dost thou revile the high priest of God?

Acts 23:4 Cross References

Matthew 5:11

You will be blessed when people speak against you and harm you and say bad things about you that are untrue, because of [your devotion to] me.

Acts 23:3

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?”

Acts 23:5

Paul said, “Brothers, I did not know that he was the head priest, for it is written [Ex. 22:28], ‘You shall not speak evil about a leader of your people.’”