Acts 23:2

World English Bible (2000)

The high priest, Ananias, commanded those who stood by him to strike him on the mouth.

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Referenced Verses

  • 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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    3Then 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?"

    4Those who stood by said, "Do you malign God's high priest?"

    5Paul 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 18:22-24
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    22When he had said this, one of the officers standing by slapped Jesus with his hand, saying, "Do you answer the high priest like that?"

    23Jesus answered him, "If I have spoken evil, testify of the evil; but if well, why do you beat me?"

    24Annas sent him bound to Caiaphas, the high priest.

  • Acts 24:1
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    1After five days, the high priest, Ananias, came down with certain elders and an orator, one Tertullus. They informed the governor against Paul.

  • Acts 23:1
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    1Paul, looking steadfastly at the council, said, "Brothers, I have lived before God in all good conscience until this day."

  • Acts 5:27
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    27When they had brought them, they set them before the council. The high priest questioned them,

  • Luke 22:63-64
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    63The men who held Jesus mocked him and beat him.

    64Having blindfolded him, they struck him on the face and asked him, "Prophesy! Who is the one who struck you?"

  • Acts 9:12-14
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    12and in a vision he has seen a man named Ananias coming in, and laying his hands on him, that he might receive his sight."

    13But Ananias answered, "Lord, I have heard from many about this man, how much evil he did to your saints at Jerusalem.

    14Here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all who call on your name."

  • Acts 25:2
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    2Then the high priest and the principal men of the Jews informed him against Paul, and they begged him,

  • Acts 22:12
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    12One Ananias, a devout man according to the law, well reported of by all the Jews who lived in Damascus,

  • Mark 14:65
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    65Some 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.

  • Acts 26:12
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    12"Whereupon as I traveled to Damascus with the authority and commission from the chief priests,

  • Matt 26:67-68
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    67Then they spit in his face and beat him with their fists, and some slapped him,

    68saying, "Prophesy to us, you Christ! Who hit you?"

  • Acts 9:1
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    1But Saul, still breathing threats and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest,

  • Acts 23:15
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    15Now 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."

  • Acts 7:1
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    1The high priest said, "Are these things so?"

  • Acts 5:5
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    5Ananias, hearing these words, fell down and died. Great fear came on all who heard these things.

  • Acts 16:22
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    22The multitude rose up together against them, and the magistrates tore their clothes off of them, and commanded them to be beaten with rods.

  • Acts 6:12-13
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    12They stirred up the people, the elders, and the scribes, and came against him and seized him, and brought him in to the council,

    13and set up false witnesses who said, "This man never stops speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the law.

  • Acts 24:20
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    20Or else let these men themselves say what injustice they found in me when I stood before the council,

  • Acts 23:9
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    9A 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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    54Now when they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed at him with their teeth.

  • Matt 26:62
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    62The high priest stood up, and said to him, "Have you no answer? What is this that these testify against you?"

  • Acts 6:15
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    15All who sat in the council, fastening their eyes on him, saw his face like it was the face of an angel.

  • Acts 22:24-25
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    24the commanding officer commanded him to be brought into the barracks, ordering him to be examined by scourging, that he might know for what crime they shouted against him like that.

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    22They listened to him until he said that; then they lifted up their voice, and said, "Rid the earth of this fellow, for he isn't fit to live!"

  • Acts 24:6-7
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    6He even tried to profane the temple, and we arrested him.

    7

  • 2 Chr 18:23
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    23Then 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?"

  • 1 Kgs 22:24
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    24Then 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?"

  • Acts 21:32
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    32Immediately he took soldiers and centurions, and ran down to them. They, when they saw the chief captain and the soldiers, stopped beating Paul.

  • Luke 22:50
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    50A certain one of them struck the servant of the high priest, and cut off his right ear.

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    15about 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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    6Annas the high priest was there, with Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and as many as were relatives of the high priest.

  • Acts 9:10
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    10Now 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."

  • Acts 5:33
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    33But they, when they heard this, were cut to the heart, and determined to kill them.

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    19I said, 'Lord, they themselves know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue those who believed in you.

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    8Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, "You rulers of the people, and elders of Israel,

  • Mark 14:60
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    60The high priest stood up in the midst, and asked Jesus, "Have you no answer? What is it which these testify against you?"

  • Acts 22:30
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    30But on the next day, desiring to know the truth about why he was accused by the Jews, he freed him from the bonds, and commanded the chief priests and all the council to come together, and brought Paul down and set him before them.

  • Acts 26:10
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    10This 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.