Acts 23:2
The high priest, Ananias, commanded those who stood by him to strike him on the mouth.
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- John 18:22 : 22 When he had said this, one of the officers standing by slapped Jesus with his hand, saying, "Do you answer the high priest like that?"
- Acts 24:1 : 1 After five days, the high priest, Ananias, came down with certain elders and an orator, one Tertullus. They informed the governor against Paul.
- 1 Kgs 22:24 : 24 Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near, and struck Micaiah on the cheek, and said, "Which way did the Spirit of Yahweh go from me to speak to you?"
- Mic 5:1 : 1 Now you shall gather yourself in troops, daughter of troops. He has laid siege against us. They will strike the judge of Israel with a rod on the cheek.
- Matt 26:67 : 67 Then they spit in his face and beat him with their fists, and some slapped him,
- Jer 20:2 : 2 Then Pashhur struck Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the upper gate of Benjamin, which was in the house of Yahweh.
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3 Then Paul said to him, "God will strike you, you whitewashed wall! Do you sit to judge me according to the law, and command me to be struck contrary to the law?"
4 Those who stood by said, "Do you malign God's high priest?"
5 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.'"
- John 18:22-243 verses74%
22 When he had said this, one of the officers standing by slapped Jesus with his hand, saying, "Do you answer the high priest like that?"
23 Jesus answered him, "If I have spoken evil, testify of the evil; but if well, why do you beat me?"
24 Annas sent him bound to Caiaphas, the high priest.
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1 After five days, the high priest, Ananias, came down with certain elders and an orator, one Tertullus. They informed the governor against Paul.
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1 Paul, looking steadfastly at the council, said, "Brothers, I have lived before God in all good conscience until this day."
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27 When they had brought them, they set them before the council. The high priest questioned them,
- Luke 22:63-642 verses70%
63 The men who held Jesus mocked him and beat him.
64 Having blindfolded him, they struck him on the face and asked him, "Prophesy! Who is the one who struck you?"
- Acts 9:12-143 verses70%
12 and in a vision he has seen a man named Ananias coming in, and laying his hands on him, that he might receive his sight."
13 But Ananias answered, "Lord, I have heard from many about this man, how much evil he did to your saints at Jerusalem.
14 Here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all who call on your name."
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2 Then the high priest and the principal men of the Jews informed him against Paul, and they begged him,
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12 One Ananias, a devout man according to the law, well reported of by all the Jews who lived in Damascus,
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65 Some began to spit on him, and to cover his face, and to beat him with fists, and to tell him, "Prophesy!" The officers struck him with the palms of their hands.
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12 "Whereupon as I traveled to Damascus with the authority and commission from the chief priests,
- Matt 26:67-682 verses69%
67 Then they spit in his face and beat him with their fists, and some slapped him,
68 saying, "Prophesy to us, you Christ! Who hit you?"
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1 But Saul, still breathing threats and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest,
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15 Now therefore, you with the council inform the commanding officer that he should bring him down to you tomorrow, as though you were going to judge his case more exactly. We are ready to kill him before he comes near."
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1 The high priest said, "Are these things so?"
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5 Ananias, hearing these words, fell down and died. Great fear came on all who heard these things.
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22 The multitude rose up together against them, and the magistrates tore their clothes off of them, and commanded them to be beaten with rods.
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12 They stirred up the people, the elders, and the scribes, and came against him and seized him, and brought him in to the council,
13 and set up false witnesses who said, "This man never stops speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the law.
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9 A great clamor arose, and some of the scribes of the Pharisees part stood up, and contended, saying, "We find no evil in this man. But if a spirit or angel has spoken to him, let's not fight against God!"
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54 Now when they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed at him with their teeth.
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62 The high priest stood up, and said to him, "Have you no answer? What is this that these testify against you?"
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15 All who sat in the council, fastening their eyes on him, saw his face like it was the face of an angel.
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6 He even tried to profane the temple, and we arrested him.
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23 Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near, and struck Micaiah on the cheek, and said, "Which way did the Spirit of Yahweh go from me to speak to you?"
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24 Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near, and struck Micaiah on the cheek, and said, "Which way did the Spirit of Yahweh go from me to speak to you?"
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32 Immediately he took soldiers and centurions, and ran down to them. They, when they saw the chief captain and the soldiers, stopped beating Paul.
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50 A certain one of them struck the servant of the high priest, and cut off his right ear.
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15 about whom, when I was at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews informed me, asking for a sentence against him.
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6 Annas the high priest was there, with Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and as many as were relatives of the high priest.
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10 Now there was a certain disciple at Damascus named Ananias. The Lord said to him in a vision, "Ananias!" He said, "Behold, it's me, Lord."
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10 This I also did in Jerusalem. I both shut up many of the saints in prisons, having received authority from the chief priests, and when they were put to death I gave my vote against them.