Acts 22:22–23:10

²²And they gave him audience unto this word, and then ^slifted up their voices, and said, ^tAway with such a fellow from the earth: for ^uit is not fit that he should live. ²³And as they cried out, and cast off their clothes, and threw dust into the air, ²⁴The chief captain commanded him to be brought into ^xthe castle, and bade that he should be ^yexamined by scourging; that he might know wherefore they cried so against him. ²⁵And as they bound him with thongs, Paul said unto the centurion that stood by, Is it lawful for you to scourge a man that is a ^zRoman, and ^zuncondemned? ²⁶When the centurion heard that, he went and told the chief captain, saying, Take heed what thou doest: for this man is a Roman. ²⁷Then the chief captain came, and said unto him, Tell me, art thou a Roman? He said, Yea. ²⁸And the chief captain answered, With a great sum ^aobtained I this freedom. And Paul said, But I was free born. ²⁹Then straightway they departed from him which should have ^||examined him: and the chief captain also ^bwas afraid, after he knew that he was a Roman, and because he had bound him.

³⁰On the morrow, because he would have known the certainty wherefore he was accused of the Jews, he loosed him from ^chis bands, and commanded the chief priests and all their ^dcouncil to appear, and brought Paul ^edown, and set him before them.

23And Paul, ^aearnestly beholding ^bthe council, said, Men and brethren, I have ^clived ^din all good conscience before God until this day. ²And the high priest ^ddAnanias commanded them that stood by him to ^esmite him on the mouth. ³Then said Paul unto him, God shall smite thee, thou ^fwhited wall: for sittest thou to judge me after the law, and commandest me to be smitten ^gcontrary to the law? ⁴And ^hthey that stood by said, Revilest thou God’s high priest? ⁵Then said Paul, ⁱI wist not, brethren, that he was the high priest: for it is written, ^jThou shalt not speak evil of the ruler of thy people. ⁶But when Paul perceived that the one part were ^kSadducees, and the other Pharisees, he cried out in ^bthe council, Men and brethren, ^lI am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee: ^mof the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question. ⁷And when he had so said, there arose a dissension between the Pharisees and the ^kSadducees: and the multitude was divided. ⁸For the ^kSadducees ⁿsay that there is no resurrection, neither angel, nor spirit: but the Pharisees confess both. ⁹And there arose a great cry: and the scribes that were of the Pharisees’ part arose, and strove, saying, ^oWe find no evil in this man: but ^pif a spirit or an angel hath spoken to him, ^qlet us not fight against God. ¹⁰And when there arose a great dissension, the chief captain, fearing lest Paul should have been pulled in pieces of them, commanded ^qqthe soldiers to ^rgo down, and to take him by force from among them, and to bring him into ^sthe castle.