Acts 23:2 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

² And the high priest Ananias commanded those who stood by 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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Acts 23:2 Cross References

1 Kings 22:24

Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near and struck Micaiah on the cheek, and said, “How did the Spirit of the Lord go from me to speak to you?”

2 Chronicles 18:23

Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near and struck Micaiah on the cheek, and said, “Which way did the Spirit of the Lord go from me to speak to you?”

Job 16:10

Men have gaped at me with their mouth, they have struck me insolently upon the cheek, they mass themselves together against me.

Jeremiah 20:2

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

Micah 5:1

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

Matthew 26:67

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

John 18:22

When he had said this, one of the officers standing by struck Jesus with his hand, saying, “Is that how you answer the high priest?”

John 18:23

Jesus answered him, “If I have spoken wrongly, bear witness to the wrong; but if I have spoken rightly, why do you strike me?”

Acts 24:1

And after five days the high priest Ananias came down with some elders and a spokesman, one Tertullus. They laid before the governor their case against Paul;