Then Paul said to him, “God will strike you, you whitewashed wall. Do you indeed sit in judgment upon me according to the law and yet in violation of the law order me to be struck?”
Thereupon Zedekiah, son of Chenaanah, came up and struck Micaiah on the cheek, saying, “Has the spirit of the Lord, then, left me to speak with you?”
Can unjust judges be your allies, those who create burdens by decree,
And still under the sun in the judgment place I saw wickedness, and wickedness also in the seat of justice.
You shall not act dishonestly in rendering judgment. Show neither partiality to the weak nor deference to the mighty, but judge your neighbor justly.
Do not act dishonestly in using measures of length or weight or capacity.
Woe to those who turn justice into wormwood and cast righteousness to the ground,
Then Annas sent him bound to Caiaphas the high priest. Peter Denies Jesus Again.
“Does our law condemn a person before it first hears him and finds out what he is doing?”
The attendants said, “Would you revile God’s high priest?”