And it happened, when the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his garments and said, Am I God, to kill and to keep alive, that this one is sending to me to take away his leprosy from a man? For consider now, and see, for he is seeking an occasion with me.
And watching carefully, they sent spies, pretending themselves to be righteous ones, in order that they might seize upon a word of His, so as to deliver Him up to the power and to the authority of the governor.
Therefore, you do not be persuaded by them, for more than forty men of them lie in wait for him who bound themselves by an oath neither to eat nor to drink until they kill him. And now they are ready, awaiting the promise from you.