Acts 23

Acts 23:3

God shall smite thee, thou whited wall: for sittest thou to judge me after the law, and commandest me to be smitten contrary to the law?

God shall be revenged of thee, O thou counterfeit of a high priest, and mere painted visor of justice: for, dost thou pretend to come hither to judge me according to the law; and now, preventing and abusing justice, dost thou command me to be smitten contrary to law? The law forbids to punish any man causelessly and unheard; thou commandest this unjust measure to be offered unto me.

Acts 23:5

Then said Paul, I wist not, brethren, that he was the high priest: for it is written, Thou shalt not speak evil of the ruler of thy people.

Then said Paul, Brethren, I acknowledge not this man, (being a known and palpable usurper,) to be the high priest: for I well know what is written in the Law, Thou shalt not speak ill of the ruler of thy people: were he so, I would have forborne to speak unreverently and unrespectively to him; but, being as he is, a noted intruder, I have made bold to speak home unto him.

Acts 23:6

But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men &c.

But when Paul perceived that the one part of the assembly were Sadducees, which denied the Resurrection, the other Pharisees; in a holy policy to divert the malice of the multitude, and so to divide them, that his just cause might find a party among them, he cried out in the council, and said, &c.

Acts 23:9

But if a spirit or an angel hath spoken to him, let us not fight against God.

If the Spirit of God, or some angel of God, hath spoken to him, what reason have we to quarrel with him, in this? or, if we do, what do we else but fight against God himself?