There were more than forty in the plot;
They will expel you from their Synagogues; indeed the time is coming when any one who kills you will think that he is making an offering to God.
In the morning the Jews combined together, and took an oath that they would not eat or drink till they had killed Paul.
And they went to the Chief Priests and the Councillors, and said: "We have taken a solemn oath not to touch food till we have killed Paul.