Acts Chapter 23

• Acts 23:1
  Acts.
• Acts 23:2
  Paul, looking steadfastly at the council, said, “Brothers, I have lived before God in all good conscience until today.”
• Acts 23:3
  The high priest, Ananias, commanded those who stood by him to strike him on the mouth.
• Acts 23:4
  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 t...
• Acts 23:5
  Those who stood by said, “Do you malign God’s high priest?”
• Acts 23:6
  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 23:7
  But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, “Men and brothers, I am a Pharisee, a s...
• Acts 23:8
  When he had said this, an argument arose between the Pharisees and Sadducees, and the crowd was divided.
• Acts 23:9
  For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, nor angel, nor spirit; but the Pharisees confess all of these.
• Acts 23:10
  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...
• Acts 23:11
  When a great argument arose, the commanding officer, fearing that Paul would be torn in pieces by them, commanded the soldiers to go down and take him...
• Acts 23:12
  The following night, the Lord stood by him and said, “Cheer up, Paul, for as you have testified about me at Jerusalem, so you must testify also at Rom...
• Acts 23:13
  When it was day, some of the Jews banded together and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had kill...
• Acts 23:14
  There were more than forty people who had made this conspiracy.
• Acts 23:15
  They came to the chief priests and the elders, and said, “We have bound ourselves under a great curse to taste nothing until we have killed Paul.
• Acts 23:16
  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...
• Acts 23:17
  But Paul’s sister’s son heard they were lying in wait, and he came and entered into the barracks and told Paul.
• Acts 23:18
  Paul summoned one of the centurions and said, “Bring this young man to the commanding officer, for he has something to tell him.”
• Acts 23:19
  So he took him and brought him to the commanding officer and said, “Paul, the prisoner, summoned me and asked me to bring this young man to you. He ha...
• Acts 23:20
  The commanding officer took him by the hand, and going aside, asked him privately, “What is it that you have to tell me?”
• Acts 23:21
  He said, “The Jews have agreed to ask you to bring Paul down to the council tomorrow, as though intending to inquire somewhat more accurately concerni...
• Acts 23:22
  Therefore don’t yield to them, for more than forty men lie in wait for him, who have bound themselves under a curse to neither eat nor drink until the...
• Acts 23:23
  So the commanding officer let the young man go, charging him, “Tell no one that you have revealed these things to me.”
• Acts 23:24
  He called to himself two of the centurions, and said, “Prepare two hundred soldiers to go as far as Caesarea, with seventy horsemen and two hundred me...
• Acts 23:25
  He asked them to provide mounts, that they might set Paul on one, and bring him safely to Felix the governor.
• Acts 23:26
  He wrote a letter like this:
• Acts 23:27
  “Claudius Lysias to the most excellent governor Felix: Greetings.
• Acts 23:28
  “This man was seized by the Jews, and was about to be killed by them when I came with the soldiers and rescued him, having learned that he was a Roman...
• Acts 23:29
  Desiring to know the cause why they accused him, I brought him down to their council.
• Acts 23:30
  I found him to be accused about questions of their law, but not to be charged with anything worthy of death or of imprisonment.
• Acts 23:31
  When I was told that the Jews lay in wait for the man, I sent him to you immediately, charging his accusers also to bring their accusations against hi...
• Acts 23:32
  So the soldiers, carrying out their orders, took Paul and brought him by night to Antipatris.
• Acts 23:33
  But on the next day they left the horsemen to go with him, and returned to the barracks.
• Acts 23:34
  When they came to Caesarea and delivered the letter to the governor, they also presented Paul to him.
• Acts 23:35
  When the governor had read it, he asked what province he was from. When he understood that he was from Cilicia, he said,
• Acts 23:36
  “I will hear you fully when your accusers also arrive.” He commanded that he be kept in Herod’s palace.