Acts 23:1-9 ▼

1 AND as Paul beheld their assembly, he said, Men, my brethren, I have lived i n all good conscience before God until this day.

2 And the high priest An-a-ni’as commanded those who stood by his side to strike Paul on the mouth.

3 Then Paul said to him, God shall smite you, O you hypocrite: for you sit to judge me according to the law, yet you yourself transgress the law, when you command that I be smitten.

4 And those who stood by said to him, Do you even revile the high priest of God?

5 Then Paul said to them, Brothers, I did not know that he was a high priest: for it is written, You shall not revile the ruler of your people.

6 Now when Paul perceived that part of the people were Sad’du-cees, and the others were Phar’i-sees, he cried out in the assembly, Men, my brethren, I am a Phar’i-see, the son of a Phar’i-see: and it is because of the hope of the resurrection of the dead that I am here to be judged.

7 And when he had said this, there arose a dissension between the Phar’i-sees and the Sad’du-cees: and the people were divided.

8 For the Sad’du-cees say there is no resurrection, neither angels nor soul: but the Phar’i-sees believe in them.

9 Then there arose a great cry: and the scribes that were of the party of the Phar’i-sees rose up, and argued, saying, We find no fault with this man: and if a spirit or an angel has spoken to him, there is nothing wrong in that.