The attendants said, “Would you revile God’s high priest?”
Blessed are you when they insult you and persecute you and utter every kind of evil against you [falsely] because of me.
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?”
Paul answered, “Brothers, I did not realize he was the high priest. For it is written, ‘You shall not curse a ruler of your people.’”