Acts 23:4

An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

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

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.’”