There were more than forty of them in this plot.
They will excommunicate you; indeed the time is coming when anyone who kills you will imagine he is performing a service to God.
When day broke, the Jews formed a conspiracy, taking a solemn oath neither to eat nor to drink till they had killed Paul.
They then went to the high priests and elders, saying, "We have taken a solemn oath to taste no food till we have killed Paul.
