Acts 23:3

New American Bible - revised edition

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?”

Cross References

John 7:51

“Does our law condemn a person before it first hears him and finds out what he is doing?”

Amos 5:7

Woe to those who turn justice into wormwood and cast righteousness to the ground,

Ecclesiastes 3:16

And still under the sun in the judgment place I saw wickedness, and wickedness also in the seat of justice.

Psalm 94:20

Can unjust judges be your allies, those who create burdens by decree,

Leviticus 19:35

Do not act dishonestly in using measures of length or weight or capacity.

Leviticus 19:15

You shall not act dishonestly in rendering judgment. Show neither partiality to the weak nor deference to the mighty, but judge your neighbor justly.

John 18:24

Then Annas sent him bound to Caiaphas the high priest. Peter Denies Jesus Again.

1 Kings 22:24

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?”

Acts 23:4

The attendants said, “Would you revile God’s high priest?”