Acts 9:24

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But their laying await was known of Saul. And they watched the gates day and night to kill him.

Talking and arguing with the Jews of foreign birth, who, however, made attempts to kill him.

And, when there was an attempt on the part of both Gentiles and Jews, with their leading men, to resort to violence and to stone them,

That very night the Brethren sent Paul and Silas off to Beroea; and on reaching that place, they went to the Jewish Synagogue.

In the morning the Jews combined together, and took an oath that they would not eat or drink till they had killed Paul.

And asked a favor of him, to Paul's injury--to have Paul brought to Jerusalem. All the while they were plotting to make away with him on the road.

When I was in Damascus, the Governor under King Aretas had the gates of that city guarded, so as to arrest me,