Agree with your accuser quickly, while you are on the way with him; lest at any time the accuser delivers you to the judge, and the judge delivers you to the officer, and you be thrown into prison.
When you go with your adversary to the magistrate, as you are on the way, do all in your power that you may be delivered from him; lest he 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 make war against another king, does not sit down first, and consult whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him that comes against him with twenty thousand?
And Herod was highly displeased with the people of Tyre and Sidon: but they came with one accord to him, and, having made Blastus the king’s chamberlain their friend, desired peace; because their country was nourished by the king’s country.