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

When they heard this, they were furious and wanted to kill them.

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

For I see that you are in the gall of bitterness and in the bond of iniquity."

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

When many days had passed, the Jews plotted to kill him,

but their plot became known to Saul. They were watching the gates day and night, to kill him;

And he was talking and arguing with the Hellenistic Jews; but they were seeking to kill him.

A voice came to him, "Get up, Peter. Kill and eat!"

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

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

Then I heard a voice saying to me, 'Get up, Peter. Kill and eat!'

But the voice answered a second time from heaven, 'What God has cleansed you must not call common.'

When the jailer woke and saw that the prison doors were open, 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 made a united attack upon 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 seized Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue, and beat him in front of the judgment seat. But Gallio paid no attention to this.

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

You therefore, along with the council, give notice now to the commander to bring him down to you, as though you were going to determine his case more exactly. And we are ready to kill him before he comes near."

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

as a favor to them, to have Paul transferred to Jerusalem, for they were preparing an ambush to kill him along the way.

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

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