Acts 23:21

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

But do not thou yield unto them: for there lie in wait for him of them more than forty men, which have bound themselves with an oath, that they will neither eat nor drink till they have killed him: and now are they ready, looking for a promise from thee.

Do not

Exodus 23:2

For

An oath

Acts 23:14

Romans 9:3

Bible References

Do not

“You must not follow a crowd in wrongdoing. Do not testify in a lawsuit and go along with a crowd to pervert justice.

For

When it was day, the Jews formed a conspiracy and bound themselves under a curse: neither to eat nor to drink until they had killed Paul.

After many days had passed, the Jews conspired to kill him,

When an attempt was made by both the Gentiles and Jews, with their rulers, to assault and stone them,

serving the Lord with all humility, with tears, and with the trials that came to me through the plots of the Jews—

asking him to do them a favor against Paul, that he might summon him to Jerusalem. They were preparing an ambush along the road to kill him.

On frequent journeys, I faced
dangers from rivers,
dangers from robbers,
dangers from my own people,
dangers from the Gentiles,
dangers in the city,
dangers in the open country,
dangers on the sea,
and dangers among false brothers;

An oath

These men went to the chief priests and elders and said, “We have bound ourselves under a solemn curse that we won’t eat anything until we have killed Paul.

For I could almost wish to be cursed and cut off from the Messiah for the benefit of my brothers, my own flesh and blood.