mkjv - Acts:22:30-23:11

mkjv@Acts:22:30 @ On the next day, he desiring to know with certainty why he was accused by the Jews, he freed him from [his] bonds, and commanded the chief priests and all their sanhedrin to appear. And bringing Paul down, [he] set [him among them.

mkjv@Acts:23:1 @ And looking earnestly on the sanhedrin, Paul said, Men, brothers, I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day.

mkjv@Acts:23:2 @ And the high priest Ananias commanded those who stood by him to strike him on the mouth.

mkjv@Acts:23:3 @ Then Paul said to him, God shall strike you, whitened wall! For do you sit judging me according to the Law, and against law command me to be stricken?

mkjv@Acts:23:4 @ And they who stood by him said, Do you revile God's high priest?

mkjv@Acts:23:5 @ Then Paul said, I did not know, brothers, that he was the high priest; for it is written, You shall not speak evil of the ruler of your people.

mkjv@Acts:23:6 @ But when Paul saw that the one part were Sadducees and the other part Pharisees, he cried out in the sanhedrin, Men! Brothers! I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee! I am being judged because of the hope and resurrection of [the] dead.

mkjv@Acts:23:7 @ And when he had said this, there arose a dissension between the Pharisees and the Sadducees; and the multitude was divided.

mkjv@Acts:23:8 @ For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, neither angel, nor spirit; but the Pharisees confess both.

mkjv@Acts:23:9 @ And there arose a great cry. And the scribes [who were] on the Pharisees' side arose and strove, saying, We find no evil in this man. But if a spirit or an angel has spoken to him, let us not fight against God.

mkjv@Acts:23:10 @ And dissension arising, the chiliarch, fearing lest Paul should have been pulled in pieces by them, commanded the soldiers to go down and to take him from among them by force, and to bring [him] into the fortress.

mkjv@Acts:23:11 @ And the following night the Lord stood by him and said, Be of good cheer, Paul, for as you have testified of Me in Jerusalem, so you also must bear witness at Rome.