But I said, ‘Certainly not, Lord, for nothing defiled or ritually unclean has ever entered my mouth!’

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

Then Peter started speaking: “I now truly understand that God does not show favoritism in dealing with people,

So Philip started speaking, and beginning with this scripture proclaimed the good news about Jesus to him.

Now the passage of scripture the man was reading was this: “He was led like a sheep to slaughter, and like a lamb before its shearer is silent, so he did not open his mouth.

But just as Paul was about to speak, Gallio said to the Jews, “If it were a matter of some crime or serious piece of villainy, I would have been justified in accepting the complaint of you Jews,