and say: If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.

They answered him: We are the posterity of Abraham, and have never been in bondage to any one. How say you, You shall be made free?

And while the day was coming on, Paul exhorted them all to take food, saying: This is the fourteenth day that you have been in suspense, and continued without food, having taken nothing.