Acts of the Apostles 23:13

In context

11That night the Lord stood beside him and said, “Take courage. As you have testified about me in Jerusalem, so you must testify in Rome as well.” 12When day came, the Jews formed a conspiracy and bound themselves under an oath neither to eat nor to drink until they had killed Paul. 13There were more than forty who joined in this plot. 14They went to the chief priests and elders and said, “We have bound ourselves under a solemn oath to taste nothing until we have killed Paul. 15So now you, with the Sanhedrin, must petition the commander to bring him down to you, as though you meant to look into his case more thoroughly. We are ready to do away with him before he ever gets here.”