5 Bible Verses about Family Solidarity

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Acts 3:1

NOW at that time Peter and John were going up to the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth;

Acts 23:12-24

Then as soon as it was day, some of the Jews forming a conspiracy, bound themselves under the direst imprecation, declaring that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul. Now there were more than forty who had on oath formed this conspiracy. So they came to the high-priests and elders, and said, We have bound ourselves by the direst imprecation, to taste nothing till we have killed Paul.read more.
Now therefore do ye with the sanhedrim give notice to the military tribune, that to-morrow he bring him down to you, as if intending to make more accurate inquiries into the things concerning him: but we, ere he come nigh, are ready to kill him. Now Paul's sister's son having heard of their lying in wait, came, and entering into the fortress told Paul. Then Paul calling to him one of the centurions, said, Carry this young man to the tribune: for he hath something to communicate to him. Then he took him, and brought him to the tribune, and said, The prisoner Paul calling me to him, entreated me to bring this young man to thee, having something to say to thee. Hereupon the tribune taking him by the hand, and leading him aside, inquired, What is it that thou hast to communicate to me? And he said, The Jews have agreed together to entreat thee that to-morrow thou wouldest bring down Paul into the sanhedrim, as about to make some more accurate inquiry concerning him. But do not thou consent to them: for more than forty men of them are lying in wait for him, who have bound themselves under an anathema, neither to eat nor drink till they have killed him: and now they are in readiness, waiting only to procure the promise from thee. Hereupon the tribune dismissed the youth, with an injunction, not to mention it to any body that thou hast discovered these things to me. And calling to him two certain persons of the centurions, he said, Get ready two hundred soldiers to go to Caesarea, and seventy horsemen, and two hundred spearmen, at the third hour of the night; and provide beasts, that setting Paul thereon, you may convey him safely to Felix the governor.

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