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Acts

Paul's Arrest and the Council's Division

Acts 22:22-23:11
22They were hearing him until this word, and they lifted up their voice, saying, Take such a one away from the earth, for it is not fit for him to live. 23As they were shouting and throwing off their cloaks and flinging dust into the air, 24The military officer ordered him to be brought into the barracks, having said that he should be questioned with whips in order that he might come to know through which cause they were shouting thus to him. 25As then they stretched him out to the leather straps, Paul said to the standing centurion, If it is permitted for you to whip a Roman human and uncondemned? 26Having heard, the centurion came near to the military officer and announced, saying, "What are you about to do? For this human is a Roman." 27So the military officer came near and said to him, "Tell me, are you a Roman?" And he said, "Yes." 28The military officer answered, I acquired this citizenship for a sum. But Paul asserted, I have been born one. 29Immediately therefore those about to question him stood away from him, and the military officer also feared, having come to know that he is a Roman and that he had bound him. 30On the next day, wishing to know the secure matter of what he is accused by the Jews, he loosed him and ordered the high priests and all the council to assemble, and having brought Paul down he stood him toward them.
Chapter 23
1Paul, having gazed at the council, said, Men brothers, I have lived as citizen to God with all good conscience until this day. 2And the high priest Ananias commanded those standing by him to strike him on the mouth. 3Then Paul said to him, God is about to strike you, wall having been whitewashed; and you sit judging me according to the law, and breaking the law you order me to be struck. 4And those who stood by said, "You are reviling the high priest of God." 5Paul asserted, Brothers, I did not know that he is high priest; for it has been written, You shall not speak badly of a ruler of your people. 6Paul, having known that the one part is of Sadducees and the other of Pharisees, cried out in the council, Men brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees; concerning hope and resurrection of the dead I am judged. 7When he had spoken this, there arose an uprising of the Pharisees and Sadducees, and the multitude was split. 8For Sadducees say there is no resurrection, nor angel, nor spirit; but Pharisees confess both. 9There arose a great shouting, and some of the scribes of the Pharisees' party stood up and contended sharply, saying, "We find no evil in this man. What if a spirit spoke to him, or an angel?" 10As a great uprising was occurring, the military officer, fearing that Paul might be torn apart by them, ordered the troops to come down, seize him out from their midst, and bring him into the barracks. 11On the following night the Lord stood over him and said, Take heart, for as you have testified solemnly the things about me in Jerusalem, so you must also testify in Rome.
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