Acts 23:14

An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

They went to the leading priests and [Jewish] elders and told them, “We have bound ourselves under an oath [with serious consequences] to eat nothing until we have killed Paul.

Cross References

Acts 23:12

When daylight came, [a group of] Jews conspired together, agreeing under oath that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.

Acts 23:13

There were more than forty men who made this pact.

Acts 23:20

And the lad said, “The Jews have plotted to ask you to take Paul down to the Council [meeting] tomorrow, as though you were going to question him further.

Acts 23:21

But, do not listen to them, because over forty men have laid a plot and bound themselves under an oath [with serious consequences] neither to eat nor drink [anything] until they have killed him. They are now ready [to carry out the plot] and are just waiting for you to agree [to their arrangement].”