You received the law by decrees given by angels, but you did not obey it.”

saying, “This man is persuading people to worship God in a way contrary to the law!”

A man named Ananias, a devout man according to the law, well spoken of by all the Jews who live there,

But some from the religious party of the Pharisees who had believed stood up and said, “It is necessary to circumcise the Gentiles and to order them to observe the law of Moses.”

Paul said in his defense, “I have committed no offense against the Jewish law or against the temple or against Caesar.”

take them and purify yourself along with them and pay their expenses, so that they may have their heads shaved. Then everyone will know there is nothing in what they have been told about you, but that you yourself live in conformity with the law.

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?”

But I confess this to you, that I worship the God of our ancestors according to the Way (which they call a sect), believing everything that is according to the law and that is written in the prophets.