And I was like a docile lamb being brought to the slaughter; and I did not know that they had plotted schemes against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with its fruit; and let us cut him off from the land of the living so that his name may be remembered no more.
The godly one has perished from the earth, and the upright one is not among mankind. All of them lie in wait for blood; each man hunts his brother with a net.
Now, therefore, you with the sanhedrin inform the chiliarch, so that tomorrow he may bring him down to you, as being about to more accurately determine the things about him. And before his drawing near, we are ready to kill him.