Acts 23:21

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

But do not be persuaded by them, for more than forty of their men are lying in ambush for him. They have bound themselves by an oath neither to eat nor drink until they kill him. They are ready now and are waiting for your consent.”

Cross References

Exodus 23:2

You shall not follow a majority in wrongdoing; when you bear witness in a lawsuit, you shall not side with the majority so as to pervert justice,

Luke 11:54

lying in wait for him, to catch him in something he might say.

Acts 20:19

serving the Lord with all humility and with tears, enduring the trials that came to me through the plots of the Jews.

Acts 23:22

So the tribune dismissed the young man, ordering him, “Tell no one that you have informed me of this.”

Acts 25:3

and requested, as a favor to them against Paul, to have him transferred to Jerusalem. They were, in fact, planning an ambush to kill him along the way.

Romans 9:3

For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my own brothers and sisters, my own flesh and blood.

2 Corinthians 11:26

on frequent journeys, in danger from rivers, danger from bandits, danger from my own people, danger from gentiles, danger in the city, danger in the wilderness, danger at sea, danger from false brothers and sisters;