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, along with all his associates (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 his associates came, they called the Council together, even all the Senate of the sons of Israel, and sent orders to the prison house for them to be brought.

When they had brought them, they stood them before the Council. The high priest questioned them,

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 brethren, and started off for Damascus in order to bring even those who were there to Jerusalem as prisoners to be punished.

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

But the bystanders said, “Do you revile God’s high priest?”

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

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.