Acts 23:3

New International Reader's Version

Then Paul said to him, “You pretender! God will hit you! You sit there and judge me by the law. But you yourself broke the law when you commanded them to hit me!”

Cross References

1 Kings 22:24

Then Zedekiah, the son of Kenaanah, went up and slapped Micaiah in the face. Zedekiah asked Micaiah, “Do you think the spirit sent by the Lord left me? Do you think that spirit went to speak to you?”

Psalm 94:20

Can you have anything to do with rulers who aren’t fair? Can those who make laws that cause suffering be friends of yours?

Ecclesiastes 3:16

Here’s something else I saw on earth. Where people should be treated right, they are treated wrong. Where people should be treated fairly, they are treated unfairly.

Leviticus 19:15

“ ‘Do not make something wrong appear to be right. Treat poor people and rich people in the same way. Do not favor one person over another. Instead, judge everyone fairly.

Leviticus 19:35

“ ‘Be honest when you measure lengths, weights or amounts.

Amos 5:7

There are people among you who turn what is fair into something bitter. They throw down to the ground what is right.

John 18:24

Annas sent him, tied up, to Caiaphas, the high priest.

John 7:51

“Does our law find a man guilty without hearing him first? Doesn’t it want to find out what he is doing?”

Acts 23:4

Those who were standing near Paul spoke to him. They said, “How dare you talk like that to God’s high priest!”