⁹ Go to the Levitical^(A) priests and to the judge^(B) who is in office at that time. Inquire of them and they will give you the verdict.^{(C) 10} You must act according to the decisions they give you at the place the Lord will choose. Be careful to do everything they instruct you to do. ¹¹ Act according to whatever they teach you and the decisions they give you. Do not turn aside from what they tell you, to the right or to the left.^(D)

³ Then Paul said to him, “God will strike you, you whitewashed wall!^(A) You sit there to judge me according to the law, yet you yourself violate the law by commanding that I be struck!”^(B)

⁶ and even tried to desecrate the temple;^(A) so we seized him.