And there were over four hundred who had made this plot;
They will excommunicate you; but a time is coming when everyone who kills you will think that he is offering God a service.
Now when it was day, some of the Jews joined in a conspiracy and bound themselves by a curse, saying neither would they eat nor drink until they would kill Paul.
who came to the chief priests and to the elders and said, "We have bound ourselves by oath with a curse to taste nothing until we kill Paul.