And they came to the place which God had said to him. And Abraham built there the altar, and arranged the wood. And he bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar, on the wood.
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.
And in the fifteenth year of the government of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate governing Judea, and Herod ruling as tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip ruling as tetrarch of Iturea and the Trachonitis country, and Lysanias ruling as tetrarch of Abilene,
Then they led Jesus from Caiaphas into the praetorium, and it was early. And they did not enter into the praetorium that they might not be defiled, but that they might eat the Passover.
But when Herod was about to bring him out, in that night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, having been bound with two chains, also guards were before the door keeping the prison.
Then at once the ones being about to examine him stood away from him. And the chiliarch also feared, fully knowing that he was a Roman, and that he had bound him.
The “God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob,” “the God of our fathers,” Ex. 3:15 glorified His Servant Jesus, whom you gave over, and denied Him to the face of Pilate, judging to set that One free.
For on a truth both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the nations and the peoples of Israel, were assembled against Your holy Servant, Jesus, whom You anointed,
he asked from him letters to Damascus, to the synagogues, so that if he found any being of the Way, both men and women, they having been bound, he might bring them to Jerusalem.
And they said to him, We have come down to bind you, to give you into the hands of the Philistines. And Samson said to them, Swear to me that you will not fall on me yourselves.