## The high priest Ananias ##

(See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-names]])

## whitewashed wall ##

This is the practice of painting a wall white so that it looks clean. Just as a a wall has been painted to look nice, so can a person appear to be morally good but yet be full of evil intent. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])

## order me to be struck ##

"command people to strike me" or "command these men to hit me"