and Annas the high priest was there, and Caiaphas and John and Alexander, and all who were of high-priestly descent.

But the high priest rose up and those with him (that is the sect of the Sadducees), and they were filled with jealousy.

Upon hearing this, they entered into the temple about daybreak and began to teach. Now when the high priest and those with him came, they called the Sanhedrin together, even all the Council of the sons of Israel, and sent orders to the jailhouse for them to be brought.

And when they had brought them, they stood them before the Sanhedrin. And the high priest questioned them,

And the high priest said, “Are these things so?”

Now Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest,

as also the high priest and all the Council of the elders can testify. From them I also received letters to the brothers, and started off for Damascus in order to bring even those who were there to Jerusalem as prisoners to be punished.

And the high priest Ananias commanded those standing beside him to strike him on the mouth.

But those standing nearby said, “Do you revile the high priest of God?”

And Paul said, “I was not aware, brothers, that he was high priest; for it is written, ‘You shall not speak evil of a ruler of your people.’”

Now after five days the high priest Ananias came down with some elders, with an attorney named Tertullus, and they brought charges to the governor against Paul.