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

Then Paul said to him, “God is going to strike you, you whitewashed wall! Do you sit there judging me according to the law, and in violation of the law you order me to be struck?”

and he begins to beat his fellow slaves and to eat and drink with drunkards,

They spat on him and took the staff and struck him repeatedly on the head.

Again and again they struck him on the head with a staff and spit on him. Then they knelt down and paid homage to him.

So they all seized Sosthenes, the president of the synagogue, and began to beat him in front of the judgment seat. Yet none of these things were of any concern to Gallio.

If you sin against your brothers or sisters in this way and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.

To the person who strikes you on the cheek, offer the other as well, and from the person who takes away your coat, do not withhold your tunic either.

And all the crowds that had assembled for this spectacle, when they saw what had taken place, returned home beating their breasts.

He immediately took soldiers and centurions and ran down to the crowd. When they saw the commanding officer and the soldiers, they stopped beating Paul.

But if that slave should say to himself, ‘My master is delayed in returning,’ and he begins to beat the other slaves, both men and women, and to eat, drink, and get drunk,

The tax collector, however, stood far off and would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, ‘God, be merciful to me, sinner that I am!’