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 shalt not follow the multitude for evil; neither shalt thou answer in a cause, to go after the multitude to pervert judgment.

For

And when it was day, the Jews, having banded together, put themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they should kill Paul.

Now when many days were fulfilled, the Jews consulted together to kill him.

And when an assault was making, both of those of the nations and the Jews with their rulers, to use them ill and stone them,

serving the Lord with all lowliness, and tears, and temptations, which happened to me through the plots of the Jews;

asking as a grace against him that he would send for him to Jerusalem, laying people in wait to kill him on the way.

in journeyings often, in perils of rivers, in perils of robbers, in perils from my own race, in perils from the nations, in perils in the city, in perils in the desert, in perils on the sea, in perils among false brethren;

An oath

and they went to the chief priests and elders, and said, We have cursed ourselves with a curse to taste nothing until we kill Paul.

for I have wished, I myself, to be a curse from the Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen, according to flesh;