The people standing near said to Paul: "Do you know that you are insulting God's High Priest?"
Blessed are you when people taunt you, and persecute you, and say everything evil about you--untruly, and on my account.
Whereupon Paul turned to him and said: "God will strike you, you white-washed wall! Are you sitting there to try me in accordance with law, and yet, in defiance of law, order me to be struck?"
"I did not know, Brothers, that it was the High Priest," said Paul, "for Scripture says--'Of the Ruler of thy People thou shalt speak no ill'."