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Acts 23:1 KJV
Acts · chapter 23 · verse 1
And Paul, earnestly beholding the council, said, Men and brethren, I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day.Acts 23:1 · King James Version
Acts 23:1 in context
1And Paul, earnestly beholding the council, said, Men and brethren, I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day.
2And the high priest Ananias commanded them that stood by him to smite him on the mouth.
3Then said Paul unto him, 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?
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Key words (Strong's)
- consciencesyneidēsisthe consciousness of anything, the soul as distinguishing between what is morally good…G4893 →
- beholdingatenizōto fix the eyes on, gaze upon, to look into anything, metaph. to fix one s mind on one as…G816 →
- brethrenadelphosa brother, whether born of the same two parents or only of the same father or mother…G80 →
- councilsynedrionany assembly , whether convened to deliberate or pass judgment, any session or assembly…G4892 →
- livedpoliteuomaito be a citizen, to administer civil affairs, manage the state, to make or create a…G4176 →
- PaulpaulosPaul or Paulus = " small or little" , Paul was the most famous of the apostles…G3972 →
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Perhaps when Paul was brought, as he often was (corpus cum causa - the person and the cause together), before heathen magistrates and councils, where he and his cause were slighted, because not at all understood, he thought, if he were brought before the sanhedrim at Jerusalem, he should be able to deal with them to…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-5