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!”

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?”

On the next day, their rulers, elders, and experts in the law came together in Jerusalem.

They brought forward false witnesses who said, “This man does not stop saying things against this holy place and the law.

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

and are advocating customs that are not lawful for us to accept or practice, since we are Romans.”

I found he was accused with reference to controversial questions about their law, but no charge against him deserved death or imprisonment.

and by this one everyone who believes is justified from everything from which the law of Moses could not justify you.

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

but since it concerns points of disagreement about words and names and your own law, settle it yourselves. I will not be a judge of these things!”

But a Pharisee whose name was Gamaliel, a teacher of the law who was respected by all the people, stood up in the council and ordered the men to be put outside for a short time.

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.”

When they heard this, they praised God. Then they said to him, “You see, brother, how many thousands of Jews there are who have believed, and they are all ardent observers of the law.

shouting, “Men of Israel, help! This is the man who teaches everyone everywhere against our people, our law, and this sanctuary! Furthermore he has brought Greeks into the inner courts of the temple and made this holy place ritually unclean!”

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.

After the reading from the law and the prophets, the leaders of the synagogue sent them a message, saying, “Brothers, if you have any message of exhortation for the people, speak it.”

They incited the people, the elders, and the experts in the law; then they approached Stephen, seized him, and brought him before the council.

“I am a Jew, born in Tarsus in Cilicia, but brought up in this city, educated with strictness under Gamaliel according to the law of our ancestors, and was zealous for God just as all of you are today.

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.