but their plotbecame knownto Saul.They were alsowatchingthe gatesdayand nightsothat they might put him to death;
Thoughthey intendedevilagainstYou [And] deviseda plot,They will not succeed.
Do not liein wait,O wickedman,against the dwellingof the righteous;Do not destroyhis restingplace;
servingthe Lordwith allhumilityand with tearsand with trialswhich cameupon me throughthe plotsof the Jews;
And [there] he spentthreemonths,and when a plotwas formedagainsthim by the Jewsas he was aboutto set sailfor Syria,he decidedto returnthroughMacedonia.
"When I was informedthat there would be a plotagainstthe man,I senthim to you at once,alsoinstructinghis accusersto bring chargesagainsthim beforeyou."
"If,then,I am a wrongdoerand have committedanythingworthyof death,I do not refuseto die;but ifnoneof those things is [true] of whichthese menaccuseme, no onecanhandme over to them. I appealto Caesar."
requestinga concessionagainstPaul, that he might have him broughtto Jerusalem([at the same time], settingan ambushto killhim on the way).
but his disciplestookhim by nightand let him downthrough[an opening in] the wall,loweringhim in a large basket.
In Damascusthe ethnarchunder Aretasthe kingwas guardingthe cityof the Damascenesin order to seizeme,
