But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I did not know that they had devised plans against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.
The good man has perished out of the earth, and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.
Now therefore you with the council signify to the chief captain that he bring him down to you tomorrow, as though you would inquire something more fully concerning him: and we, before he even comes near, are ready to kill him.