Acts 23:4

And they that stood by,.... The members of the sanhedrim that were next to the apostle; or the servants of the high priest, since they are said to stand, whereas those of that court sat: said,…

Revilest thou ... - Dost thou reproach or abuse the high priest of God? is remarkable that they, who knew that he was not the high priest, should have offered this language. He was, however, in the…

Perhaps when Paul was brought, as he often was (corpus cum causa - the person and the cause together), before heathen magistrates and councils, where he and his cause were slighted, because not at all…

God's high priest So styled because he sat on the judgment-seat as God's representative, cp. Deu 17:8-13. In the Old Test. the priestly, and even other, judges are sometimes called by God's own name…