Acts 23:21

An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

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].”

Cross References

Luke 11:54

[and] plotting to trap Him by something He might say.

Acts 20:19

[You know that] I served the Lord with humility, with tears and with trials that I experienced as the result of plots by the Jews.

Acts 23:22

So, the commander let the young man go, urging him, “Do not tell anyone that you have reported this to me.”

Acts 25:3

to do them a favor by having Paul brought [from Caesarea] to Jerusalem, for they were plotting to kill him on the way.

Romans 9:3

For I could wish that I, personally, were cut off from Christ [and lost] for the sake of my brothers, who are my physical relatives,

2 Corinthians 11:26

I have been on frequent journeys; in danger from rivers; in danger from thieves; in danger from my own people; in danger from the Gentiles; in danger in the city; in danger in the desert; in danger in the ocean; in danger among false brothers.