Acts 23:21

New English Translation

So do not let them persuade you to do this, because more than forty of them are lying in ambush for him. They have bound themselves with an oath not to eat or drink anything until they have killed him, and now they are ready, waiting for you to agree to their request.”

Cross References

Exodus 23:2

“You must not follow a crowd in doing evil things; in a lawsuit you must not offer testimony that agrees with a crowd so as to pervert justice,

Luke 11:54

plotting against him, to catch him in something he might say.

Acts 20:19

serving the Lord with all humility and with tears, and with the trials that happened to me because of the plots of the Jews.

Acts 23:22

Then the commanding officer sent the young man away, directing him, “Tell no one that you have reported these things to me.”

Acts 25:3

Requesting him to do them a favor against Paul, they urged Festus to summon him to Jerusalem, planning an ambush to kill him along the way.

Romans 9:3

For I could wish that I myself were accursed – cut off from Christ – for the sake of my people, my fellow countrymen,

2 Corinthians 11:26

I have been on journeys many times, in dangers from rivers, in dangers from robbers, in dangers from my own countrymen, in dangers from Gentiles, in dangers in the city, in dangers in the wilderness, in dangers at sea, in dangers from false brothers,