Those who stood by said, “Do you malign God’s high priest?”
“Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
Then Paul said to him, “God will strike you, you whitewashed wall! Do you sit to judge me according to the Torah, and command me to be struck contrary to the law?”
Paul said, “I didn’t know, brothers, that he was high priest. For it is written, ‘You shall not speak evil of a ruler of your people.’”