For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to evil. Will you not fear the power? Do good, and you shall have praise from it;

Then they spit in his face, and struck him with their fists, and some struck him with the palms of their hands,

Then Paul said to him, God is about to strike you, whitewashed wall; and do you sit to judge me according to the law, and command me to be struck contrary to the law?