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Acts 23:12

Weymouth NT

Now, when daylight came, the Jews formed a conspiracy and solemnly swore not to eat or drink till they had killed Paul.

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and consulted how to get Jesus into their power by stratagem and put Him to death.

Then with curses and oaths he declared, »I do not know the man.« Immediately a cock crowed,

»His blood,« replied all the people, »be on us and on our children!«

There were more than forty of them who bound themselves by this oath.

They went to the High Priests and Elders and said to them, »We have bound ourselves under a heavy curse to take no food till we have killed Paul.

I beg you not to comply; for more than forty men among them are lying in wait for him, who have solemnly vowed that they will neither eat nor drink till they have assassinated him; and even now they are ready, in anticipation of receiving that promise of you.«

But now that I have received information of an intended attack upon him, I immediately send him to you, directing his accusers also to state before you the case they have against him.«

asking it as a favour, to Paul's prejudice–to have him brought to Jerusalem. They were planning an ambush to kill him on the way.

At length the Jews plotted to kill Saul;

but information of their intention was given to him. They even watched the gates, day and night, in order to murder him;

If any one is destitute of love to the Lord, let him be accursed. OUR LORD IS COMING.

I have served Him by frequent travelling, amid dangers in crossing rivers, dangers from robbers; dangers from my own countrymen, dangers from the Gentiles; dangers in the city, dangers in the Desert, dangers by sea, dangers from spies in our midst;

Christ has purchased our freedom from the curse of the Law by becoming accursed for us–because »Cursed is every one who is hanged upon a tree.«

for they still try to prevent our preaching to the Gentiles so that they may find salvation. They thus continually fill up the measure of their own sins, and God's anger in its severest form has overtaken them.




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