1. Paul looked intently at the Sanhedrin and said, “My brothers, I have conducted myself with a perfectly clear conscience before God to this day.”
2. The high priest Ananias ordered his attendants to strike his mouth.
3. Then Paul said to him, “God will strike you, you whitewashed wall. Do you indeed sit in judgment upon me according to the law and yet in violation of the law order me to be struck?”
4. The attendants said, “Would you revile God’s high priest?”
5. Paul answered, “Brothers, I did not realize he was the high priest. For it is written, ‘You shall not curse a ruler of your people.’”
6. Paul was aware that some were Sadducees and some Pharisees, so he called out before the Sanhedrin, “My brothers, I am a Pharisee, the son of Pharisees; [I] am on trial for hope in the resurrection of the dead.”
7. When he said this, a dispute broke out between the Pharisees and Sadducees, and the group became divided.
8. For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection or angels or spirits, while the Pharisees acknowledge all three.