23:2 - And the high priest Ananias commanded them that stood by him to strike him on the mouth.
Tertullian On Modesty
Is he not withal "smiting them upon the mouth,"[147]Acts of Andrew and Matthias
And as he was praying, the devil walked behind, and said to the multitudes: Strike him on the mouth, that he may not speak.[29]
23:5 - Then said Paul, I know not, brethren, that he was the high priest: for it is written, You shall not speak evil of the ruler of your people.
Cyprian Epistle LIV
-although they had begun to be sacrilegious, and impious, and bloody, the Lord having already been crucified, and had no longer retained anything of the priestly honour and authority-yet Paul, considering the name itself, however empty, and the shadow, as it were, of the priest, said, "I wist not, brethren, that he was the high priest: for it is written, Thou shalt not speak evil of the ruler of thy, people."[22]
23:6 - But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee: of the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question.
Tertullian On the Resurrection of the Flesh
among the Sadducees and the Pharisees: "Men and brethren," he says, "I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee; of the hope and resurrection of the dead I am now called in question by you,"[256]
23:8 - For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, neither angel, nor spirit: but the Pharisees confess both.
Pseudo-Tertullian Against All Heresies
Of the Sadducees I am silent, who, springing from the root of this error, had the hardihood to adjoin to this heresy the denial likewise of the resurrection of the flesh.[3]
23:11 - And the night following the Lord stood by him, and said, Be of good cheer, Paul: for as you have testified of me in Jerusalem, so must you bear witness also at Rome.
Acts and Martyrdom of St. Matthew the Apostle
And when what had come to pass was reported in the palace, the king Fulvanus, having learned what had been done by Matthew about his wife, and his son, and his daughter-in-law, rejoiced for a time at their purification; but seeing that they were inseparable from Matthew, he was seized with rage and anger, and endeavoured to put him to death by fire. And on that night[9]