For rulers are not a terror to works that are good, but to those which are evil. Will you, then, not be afraid of the authority? Do that which is good, and you shall receive praise from the same.

But yet, if you even suffer for righteousness, happy are you. Yet fear not their terror, nor be troubled:

Then did they spit in his face, and strike him with their fists; some struck him with the open hand,

And when they had blindfolded him, they struck him on the face, and asked him, saying: Give a response; who is it that struck you?

And some began to spit on him, and to cover his face, and to strike him with their fists, and to say to him: Give a response. And the attendants struck him with their open hands.