44:022:020 And when the blood of thy martyr Stephen was shed, I also was standing by, and consenting unto his death, and kept the raiment of them that slew him. 44:022:021 And he said unto me, Depart: for I will send thee far hence unto the Gentiles. 44:022:022 And they gave him audience unto this word, and then lifted up their voices, and said, Away with such a fellow from the earth: for it is not fit that he should live. 44:022:023 And as they cried out, and cast off their clothes, and threw dust into the air, 44:022:024 The chief captain commanded him to be brought into the castle, and bade that he should be examined by scourging; that he might know wherefore they cried so against him. 44:022:025 And as they bound him with thongs, Paul said unto the centurion that stood by, Is it lawful for you to scourge a man that is a Roman, and uncondemned? 44:022:026 When the centurion heard that, he went and told the chief captain, saying, Take heed what thou doest: for this man is a Roman. 44:022:027 Then the chief captain came, and said unto him, Tell me, art thou a Roman? He said, Yea. 44:022:028 And the chief captain answered, With a great sum obtained I this freedom. And Paul said, But I was free born. 44:022:029 Then straightway they departed from him which should have examined him: and the chief captain also was afraid, after he knew that he was a Roman, and because he had bound him. 44:022:030 On the morrow, because he would have known the certainty wherefore he was accused of the Jews, he loosed him from his bands, and commanded the chief priests and all their council to appear, and brought Paul down, and set him before them. 44:023:001 And Paul, earnestly beholding the council, said, Men and brethren, I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day. 44:023:002 And the high priest Ananias commanded them that stood by him to smite him on the mouth. 44:023:003 Then 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? 44:023:004 And they that stood by said, Revilest thou God's high priest? 44:023:005 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. 44:023:006 But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee: of the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question.