Be well-disposed toward your opponent quickly, while you are in the way with him, that the opponent not give you over to the judge, and the judge give you over to the officer, and you be thrown into prison.
For as you go with your adversary to a magistrate, give pains in the way to be freed from him, that he not drag you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and the officer throw you into prison.
Or what king going to encounter another king in war does not first sit down and take counsel whether he is able with ten thousand to meet those coming upon him with twenty thousand?
And Herod was very angry with the Tyrians and Sidonians. But with one mind they came to him. And persuading Blastus, the one over the king’s bedroom, they begged peace, because their country was fed from the royal bounty.