For this reason the Jews seized me in the temple and tried to kill me.
When the seven days were almost completed, the Jews from Asia, who had seen him in the temple, stirred up all the crowd, and laid hands on him,
Up to this word they listened to him; then they lifted up their voices and said, “Away with such a fellow from the earth! For he ought not to live.”
asking as a favor to have the man sent to Jerusalem, planning an ambush to kill him on the way.