For the promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off, as many as the Lord our God will call to Himself.”

But when they heard this, they were cut to the quick and intended to kill them.

You do not mean to kill me as you killed the Egyptian yesterday, do you?’

For I see that you are in the gall of bitterness and in the bondage of iniquity.”

and here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all who call on Your name.”

A voice came to him, “Get up, Peter, kill and eat!”

And he said to them, “You yourselves know how unlawful it is for a man who is a Jew to associate with a foreigner or to visit him; and yet God has shown me that I should not call any man unholy or unclean.

I also heard a voice saying to me, ‘Get up, Peter; kill and eat.’

When the jailer awoke and saw the prison doors opened, he drew his sword and was about to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had escaped.

But while Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews with one accord rose up against Paul and brought him before the judgment seat,

But when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, “If it were a matter of wrong or of vicious crime, O Jews, it would be reasonable for me to put up with you;

And they all took hold of Sosthenes, the leader of the synagogue, and began beating him in front of the judgment seat. But Gallio was not concerned about any of these things.

While they were seeking to kill him, a report came up to the commander of the Roman cohort that all Jerusalem was in confusion.

But this I admit to you, that according to the Way which they call a sect I do serve the God of our fathers, believing everything that is in accordance with the Law and that is written in the Prophets;

requesting a concession against Paul, that he might have him brought to Jerusalem (at the same time, setting an ambush to kill him on the way).

The soldiers’ plan was to kill the prisoners, so that none of them would swim away and escape;