Acts Chapter 23 verse 2 Holy Bible
And the high priest Ananias commanded them that stood by him to smite him on the mouth.
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And the high priest, Ananias, gave orders to those who were near him to give him a blow on the mouth.
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But the high priest Ananias ordered those standing by him to smite his mouth.
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And the high priest Ananias commanded them that stood by him to smite him on the mouth.
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The high priest, Ananias, commanded those who stood by him to strike him on the mouth.
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and the chief priest Ananias commanded those standing by him to smite him on the mouth,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 2. - Ananias, the son of Nebedaeus, successor of Joseph the son of Camel, or Camydus ('Ant. Jud.,' 20. 1:3; 5:2), appears to have been actually high priest at this time. He was a violent, haughty, gluttonous, and rapacious man, and vet looked up to by the Jews ("tres considere," Renan). He had probably lately returned from Rome, having been confirmed, as it seems, in his office by Claudius, to whom Quadratus, the predecessor of Felix, has sent him as a prisoner, to answer certain charges of sedition against him. He seems to have been high priest for the unusually long period of over ten years - from A.D. to A.D. (see Josephus, 'Ant. Jud.,' 20. 5:2; 6:2, 3; 8:8). But, on the other hand, Josephus ('Ant. Jud.,' 20. 8:5) speaks of a certain Jonathan being high priest during the government of Felix, and being murdered by the Sicarii at his instigation; which looks as if Ananias's high priesthood had been interrupt el. It would appear, too, from 20. 8:8, that Ismael the son of Fabi succeeded to Jonathan, net to Ananias, as is usually supposed. But the question is involved in great obscurity.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(2) The high priest Ananias.--See Note on Acts 22:5. The son of Nebedaeus was conspicuous for his cruelty and injustice, and had been sent to Rome as a prisoner to take his trial before Claudius (A.D. 52). He had been acquitted, or at least released, and had returned to Judaea. To him this assertion of a life so utterly unlike his own seemed almost like a personal insult. He fitted the cap, and raged with a brutal cruelty which reminds us of Jeffreys' treatment of Baxter.
