Those who stood by said, *Do you malign God's Kohen Gadol?*
*Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
Then Sha'ul said to him, *God will strike you, you whitewashed wall! Do you sit to judge me according to the Torah, and command me to be struck contrary to the Torah?*
Sha'ul said, *I didn't know, brothers, that he was Kohen Gadol. For it is written, 'You shall not speak evil of a ruler of your people.'*