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.

For

An oath

Acts 23:14

Romans 9:3

Bible References

For

Then as soon as it was day, some of the Jews forming a conspiracy, bound themselves under the direst imprecation, declaring that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.

But when many days were fulfilled, the Jews consulted together how to kill him:

And when there was a strong effort made both by the Gentiles and Jews with their rulers to ill-treat and stone them,

serving the Lord with all humility, and with many tears and trials, which have befallen me through the lying in wait of the Jews:

begging it as a favour from him, that he would send him back to Jerusalem, lying in wait for him to kill him on the road.

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

An oath

So they came to the high-priests and elders, and said, We have bound ourselves by the direst imprecation, to taste nothing till we have killed Paul.

For could I myself wish that an anathema should be from Christ upon my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh?