Acts 23:21

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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

Thou shall not follow a multitude to do evil, neither shall thou speak in a case to turn aside after a multitude to distort [justice],

For

And when it became day, some of the Jews, having made a conspiracy, put themselves under a curse, saying neither to eat nor to drink until they would kill Paul.

And after considerable days were fulfilled, the Jews plotted to destroy him,

And as a violent movement developed, both of the Gentiles and of the Jews, with their rulers, to denounce and to stone them,

serving the Lord with all humility, and many tears and trials that befell me by the conspiracies of the Jews.

asking a favor against him, that he would summon him to Jerusalem, making an ambush to kill him on the way.

in frequent journeys, in perils of flowing waters, in perils of bandits, in perils from my race, in perils from Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils at sea, in perils among FALSE brothers,

An oath

who, having come near to the chief priests and the elders, said, We have put ourselves under a curse, a curse to taste of nothing until we would kill Paul.

For I wished I myself to be accursed from the Christ, for my brothers, my kinsmen according to flesh,