Acts 23:15

New King James Version

Now you, therefore, together with the council, suggest to the commander that he be brought down to you tomorrow, as though you were going to make further inquiries concerning him; but we are ready to kill him before he comes near.”

Cross References

2 Samuel 13:5

So Jonadab said to him, “Lie down on your bed and pretend to be ill. And when your father comes to see you, say to him, ‘Please let my sister Tamar come and give me food, and prepare the food in my sight, that I may see it and eat it from her hand.’ ”

Psalm 21:11

For they intended evil against You; They devised a plot which they are not able to perform.

Proverbs 1:16

For their feet run to evil, And they make haste to shed blood.

Proverbs 4:16

For they do not sleep unless they have done evil; And their sleep is taken away unless they make someone fall.

Isaiah 59:7

Their feet run to evil, And they make haste to shed innocent blood; Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; Wasting and destruction are in their paths.

John 18:12

Then the detachment of troops and the captain and the officers of the Jews arrested Jesus and bound Him.

Acts 22:30

The next day, because he wanted to know for certain why he was accused by the Jews, he released him from his bonds, and commanded the chief priests and all their council to appear, and brought Paul down and set him before them.

Acts 23:1

Then Paul, looking earnestly at the council, said, “Men and brethren, I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day.”

Acts 23:6

But when Paul perceived that one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, “Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee; concerning the hope and resurrection of the dead I am being judged!”

Acts 25:3

asking a favor against him, that he would summon him to Jerusalem—while they lay in ambush along the road to kill him.