For the promise is for you and your children, and for all who are far away, as many as the Lord our God will call to himself."

You don't want to kill me the way you killed the Egyptian yesterday, do you?'

and here he has authority from the chief priests to imprison all who call on your name!"

All who heard him were amazed and were saying, "Is this not the man who in Jerusalem was ravaging those who call on this name, and who had come here to bring them as prisoners to the chief priests?"

Now after some days had passed, the Jews plotted together to kill him,

but Saul learned of their plot against him. They were also watching the city gates day and night so that they could kill him.

He was speaking and debating with the Greek-speaking Jews, but they were trying to kill him.

He said to them, "You know that it is unlawful for a Jew to associate with or visit a Gentile, yet God has shown me that I should call no person defiled or ritually unclean.

They began to call Barnabas Zeus and Paul Hermes, because he was the chief speaker.

When the jailer woke up and saw the doors of the prison standing open, he drew his sword and was about to kill himself, because he assumed the prisoners had escaped.

Now while Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews attacked Paul together and brought him before the judgment seat,

But just as Paul was about to speak, Gallio said to the Jews, "If it were a matter of some crime or serious piece of villainy, I would have been justified in accepting the complaint of you Jews,

So they all seized Sosthenes, the president of the synagogue, and began to beat him in front of the judgment seat. Yet none of these things were of any concern to Gallio.

While they were trying to kill him, a report was sent up to the commanding officer of the cohort that all Jerusalem was in confusion.

So now you and the council request the commanding officer to bring him down to you, as if you were going to determine his case by conducting a more thorough inquiry. We are ready to kill him before he comes near this place."

This man was seized by the Jews and they were about to kill him, when I came up with the detachment and rescued him, because I had learned that he was a Roman citizen.

But I confess this to you, that I worship the God of our ancestors according to the Way (which they call a sect), believing everything that is according to the law and that is written in the prophets.

Requesting him to do them a favor against Paul, they urged Festus to summon him to Jerusalem, planning an ambush to kill him along the way.

For this reason the Jews seized me in the temple courts and were trying to kill me.

Now the soldiers' plan was to kill the prisoners so that none of them would escape by swimming away.