1. Paul looked straight at the council members and said, “My friends, to this day I have served God with a clear conscience!”
2. Then Ananias the high priest ordered the men standing beside Paul to hit him on the mouth.
3. Paul turned to the high priest and said, “You whitewashed wall! God will hit you. You sit there to judge me by the Law of Moses. But at the same time you order men to break the Law by hitting me.”
12-13. The next morning more than forty Jewish men got together and vowed that they would not eat or drink anything until they had killed Paul.