Acts 23:4

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Acts 23:5
    82%

    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.'"

  • Acts 23:2-3
    2 verses
    79%

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

    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?"

  • Matt 26:61-63
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    61 and said, "This man said, 'I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.'"

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

    63 But Jesus held his peace. The high priest answered him, "I adjure you by the living God, that you tell us whether you are the Christ, the Son of God."

  • Mark 14:60-61
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    76%

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

    61 But he stayed quiet, and answered nothing. Again the high priest asked him, "Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?"

  • Luke 23:10
    76%

    10 The chief priests and the scribes stood, vehemently accusing him.

  • John 18:21-23
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    21 Why do you ask me? Ask those who have heard me what I said to them. Behold, these know the things which I said."

    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?"

  • Acts 7:1
    75%

    1 The high priest said, "Are these things so?"

  • Matt 27:39-41
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    75%

    39 Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads,

    40 and saying, "You who destroy the temple, and build it in three days, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross!"

    41 Likewise the chief priests also mocking, with the scribes, the Pharisees, and the elders, said,

  • Matt 26:65-66
    2 verses
    75%

    65 Then the high priest tore his clothing, saying, "He has spoken blasphemy! Why do we need any more witnesses? Behold, now you have heard his blasphemy.

    66 What do you think?" They answered, "He is worthy of death!"

  • Acts 5:27
    73%

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

  • Acts 24:19-20
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    19 They ought to have been here before you, and to make accusation, if they had anything against me.

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

  • Acts 6:11-13
    3 verses
    73%

    11 Then they secretly induced men to say, "We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God."

    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.

  • Luke 22:64-66
    3 verses
    72%

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

    65 They spoke many other things against him, insulting him.

    66 As soon as it was day, the assembly of the elders of the people was gathered together, both chief priests and scribes, and they led him away into their council, saying,

  • Mark 14:63-64
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    72%

    63 The high priest tore his clothes, and said, "What further need have we of witnesses?

    64 You have heard the blasphemy! What do you think?" They all condemned him to be worthy of death.

  • Acts 23:9
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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!"

  • Mark 15:29
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    29 Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads, and saying, "Ha! You who destroy the temple, and build it in three days,

  • Luke 23:2
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    2 They began to accuse him, saying, "We found this man perverting the nation, forbidding paying taxes to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ, a king."

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

  • Acts 4:6-8
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    71%

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

    7 When they had stood them in the middle of them, they inquired, "By what power, or in what name, have you done this?"

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

  • Mark 15:3-4
    2 verses
    71%

    3 The chief priests accused him of many things.

    4 Pilate again asked him, "Have you no answer? See how many things they testify against you!"

  • Acts 4:1
    70%

    1 As they spoke to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple and the Sadducees came to them,

  • Acts 22:22-23
    2 verses
    70%

    22 They 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!"

    23 As they cried out, and threw off their cloaks, and threw dust into the air,

  • Luke 23:35
    70%

    35 The people stood watching. The rulers with them also scoffed at him, saying, "He saved others. Let him save himself, if this is the Christ of God, his chosen one!"

  • Matt 26:68
    70%

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

  • Acts 25:15
    70%

    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.

  • Matt 21:23
    70%

    23 When he had come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to him as he was teaching, and said, "By what authority do you do these things? Who gave you this authority?"

  • Luke 22:52
    70%

    52 Jesus said to the chief priests, captains of the temple, and elders, who had come against him, "Have you come out as against a robber, with swords and clubs?

  • Exod 22:28
    70%

    28 "You shall not blaspheme God, nor curse a ruler of your people.

  • John 19:3
    69%

    3 They kept saying, "Hail, King of the Jews!" and they kept slapping him.

  • Acts 4:19
    69%

    19 But Peter and John answered them, "Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, judge for yourselves,

  • Acts 26:30
    69%

    30 The king rose up with the governor, and Bernice, and those who sat with them.