Now the passage of scripture the man was reading was this: "He was led like a sheep to slaughter, and like a lamb before its shearer is silent, so he did not open his mouth.

But I said, 'Certainly not, Lord, for nothing defiled or ritually unclean has ever entered my mouth!'

Then he said, 'The God of our ancestors has already chosen you to know his will, to see the Righteous One, and to hear a command from his mouth,

At that the high priest Ananias ordered those standing near Paul to strike him on the mouth.