So now, y’all and the Council make a request to the commander to bring Paul down to y’all tomorrow, as though y’all intended to conduct a more thorough investigation. But before he arrives, we are ready to kill him.”
The godly man has perished out of the earth, and there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; every man hunts his brother with a net.
But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter. I didn’t know that they had devised plans against me, saying, “Let’s destroy the tree with its fruit, and let’s cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.”