Acts 23:2 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

² Then the high priest Ananias ordered those standing near him to strike him on the mouth.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² And the high priest Ananias commanded them that stood by him to smite him on the mouth.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² At this the high priest Ananias ordered those who stood near him to strike him on the mouth.

American Standard Version (1901)

² And the high priest Ananias commanded them that stood by him to smite him on the mouth.

Common English Bible

² The high priest Ananias ordered those standing beside Paul to strike him in the mouth.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² And the high priest, Ananias, instructed those who were standing nearby to strike him on the mouth.

Acts 23:2 Cross References

John 18:22

When he had said this, one of the police standing nearby struck Jesus on the face, saying, “Is that how you answer the high priest?”

Acts 24:1

Five days later the high priest Ananias came down with some elders and an attorney, a certain Tertullus, and they reported their case against Paul to the governor.

Micah 5:1

Now you are walled around with a wall; siege is laid against us; with a rod they strike the ruler of Israel upon the cheek.

1 Kings 22:24

Then Zedekiah son of Chenaanah came up to Micaiah, slapped him on the cheek, and said, “Which way did the spirit of the Lord pass from me to speak to you?”

Matthew 26:67

Then they spat in his face and struck him, and some slapped him,

Jeremiah 20:2

Then Pashhur struck the prophet Jeremiah and put him in the stocks that were in the upper Benjamin Gate of the house of the Lord.

2 Chronicles 18:23

Then Zedekiah son of Chenaanah came up to Micaiah, slapped him on the cheek, and said, “Which way did the spirit of the Lord pass from me to speak to you?”

Job 16:10

They have gaped at me with their mouths; they have struck me insolently on the cheek; they mass themselves together against me.

John 18:23

Jesus answered, “If I have spoken wrongly, testify to the wrong. But if I have spoken rightly, why do you strike me?”