Acts 23:15

New American Bible - revised edition

You, together with the Sanhedrin, must now make an official request to the commander to have him bring him down to you, as though you meant to investigate his case more thoroughly. We on our part are prepared to kill him before he arrives.”

Cross References

2 Samuel 13:5

Then Jonadab replied, “Lie down on your bed and pretend to be sick. When your father comes to visit you, say to him, ‘Please let my sister Tamar come and encourage me to take food. If she prepares something in my presence, for me to see, I will eat it from her hand.’”

Psalm 21:11

Even their descendants you will wipe out from the earth, their offspring from the human race.

Proverbs 1:16

[For their feet run to evil, they hasten to shed blood.]

Proverbs 4:16

For they cannot rest unless they have done evil; if they do not trip anyone they lose sleep.

Isaiah 59:7

Their feet run to evil, and they hasten to shed innocent blood; Their thoughts are thoughts of wickedness, violence and destruction are on their highways.

John 18:12

So the band of soldiers, the tribune, and the Jewish guards seized Jesus, bound him,

Acts 22:30

The next day, wishing to determine the truth about why he was being accused by the Jews, he freed him and ordered the chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin to convene. Then he brought Paul down and made him stand before them.

Acts 23:1

Paul looked intently at the Sanhedrin and said, “My brothers, I have conducted myself with a perfectly clear conscience before God to this day.”

Acts 23:6

Paul was aware that some were Sadducees and some Pharisees, so he called out before the Sanhedrin, “My brothers, I am a Pharisee, the son of Pharisees; [I] am on trial for hope in the resurrection of the dead.”

Acts 25:3

as a favor to have him sent to Jerusalem, for they were plotting to kill him along the way.