"For the promise belongs to you and to your children and to all who are afar off, whomever the Lord may call."

When they heard this they were infuriated, and were minded to kill the apostles;

"'Do you want to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?'

"For I perceive that you still stand in the gall of bitterness and in the bondage of unrighteousness."

"In this city, too, he has authority from the chief priests to arrest all those who call upon thy name."

And when many days were fulfilled the Jews made a plot to kill Saul;

He also used to hold conversations and debates with the Grecian Jews, but they kept trying to kill him.

A voice came to him, saying, "Rise, Peter, kill and eat."

And again a second time came to him a voice, saying, "What God has cleansed you must not call common."

To them he said: "You know, yourselves, that it is illegal for a Jew to associate with or to visit one of another nation; but God has taught me that I should not call any man common or unclean. For this reason, when sent for, I came without demur.

I also heard a voice saying to me, 'Rise, Peter, kill and eat.'

"But for the second time a voice spoke from the sky, 'What God has cleansed, you must not call common.'

And they began to call Barnabas "Zeus," and Paul, since he was the principal speaker, "Hermes";

The jailer, roused from sleep, and seeing the doors wide open, drew his sword and was about to kill himself, because he thought that the prisoners had escaped.

But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews with one accord rose against Paul, and brought him before the tribunal.

Paul was about to open his mouth, when Gallio said to the Jews. "If it had been some misdemeanor or wicked villainy, it would have been within reason for me to listen to you Jews;

Then they all laid hold of Sosthenes, the warden of the synagogue, and beat him in front of the tribunal; but Gallio took no notice.

On the following day we went with Paul to call on James, and all the elders were present.

While they were attempting to kill him, news came to the tribune commander of the garrison that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.

"Now do you and the Sanhedrin ask the tribune to bring him down to you, as though you would judge his case more exactly; and we are ready to kill him, before he comes near the place."

"But this I confess to you, that I worship the God of our ancestors, according to the Way which they call a heresy, believing everything that is according to the Law, or is written in the Prophets,

They urged him, asking it as a favor, to send for him to Jerusalem. They meant to lay in wait for him and kill him on the way.

"For this reason the Jews seized me in the temple, and tried to kill me.

Now the soldiers were planning to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim off and so escape.