Acts 23:13
There were more than forty people who had made this conspiracy.
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- John 16:2 : 2 They will put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time comes that whoever kills you will think that he offers service to God.
- 2 Sam 15:12 : 12 Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David's counselor, from his city, even from Giloh, while he was offering the sacrifices. The conspiracy was strong; for the people increased continually with Absalom.
- 2 Sam 15:31 : 31 One told David, saying, Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom. David said, Yahweh, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.
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- Acts 23:20-212 verses83%
20He said, "The Jews have agreed to ask you to bring Paul down to the council tomorrow, as though intending to inquire somewhat more accurately concerning him.
21Therefore don't yield to them, for more than forty men lie in wait for him, who have bound themselves under a curse neither to eat nor to drink until they have killed him. Now they are ready, looking for the promise from you."
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12When it was day, some of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.
- Acts 23:14-152 verses81%
14They came to the chief priests and the elders, and said, "We have bound ourselves under a great curse, to taste nothing until we have killed Paul.
15Now therefore, you with the council inform the commanding officer that he should bring him down to you tomorrow, as though you were going to judge his case more exactly. We are ready to kill him before he comes near."
- Acts 9:23-242 verses70%
23When many days were fulfilled, the Jews conspired together to kill him,
24but their plot became known to Saul. They watched the gates both day and night that they might kill him,
- Acts 23:23-242 verses67%
23He called to himself two of the centurions, and said, "Prepare two hundred soldiers to go as far as Caesarea, with seventy horsemen, and two hundred men armed with spears, at the third hour of the night{about 9:00 PM}."
24He asked them to provide animals, that they might set Paul on one, and bring him safely to Felix the governor.
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7They were about twelve men in all.
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4They took counsel together that they might take Jesus by deceit, and kill him.
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23Therefore do what we tell you. We have four men who have taken a vow.
- Acts 25:2-32 verses66%
2Then the high priest and the principal men of the Jews informed him against Paul, and they begged him,
3asking a favor against him, that he would summon him to Jerusalem; plotting to kill him on the way.
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38Aren't you then the Egyptian, who before these days stirred up to sedition and led out into the wilderness the four thousand men of the Assassins?"
- Acts 23:30-312 verses66%
30When I was told that the Jews lay in wait for the man, I sent him to you immediately, charging his accusers also to bring their accusations against him before you. Farewell."
31So the soldiers, carrying out their orders, took Paul and brought him by night to Antipatris.
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27When the seven days were almost completed, the Jews from Asia, when they saw him in the temple, stirred up all the multitude and laid hands on him,
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45But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with jealousy, and contradicted the things which were spoken by Paul, and blasphemed.
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31As they were trying to kill him, news came up to the commanding officer of the regiment that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.
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15about whom, when I was at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews informed me, asking for a sentence against him.
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11seeing that you can recognize that it is not more than twelve days since I went up to worship at Jerusalem.
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53So from that day forward they took counsel that they might put him to death.
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9The Jews also joined in the attack, affirming that these things were so.
- Acts 27:42-432 verses64%
42The soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners, so that none of them would swim out and escape.
43But the centurion, desiring to save Paul, stopped them from their purpose, and commanded that those who could swim should throw themselves overboard first to go toward the land;
- Acts 23:9-102 verses64%
9A great clamor arose, and some of the scribes of the Pharisees part stood up, and contended, saying, "We find no evil in this man. But if a spirit or angel has spoken to him, let's not fight against God!"
10When a great argument arose, the commanding officer, fearing that Paul would be torn in pieces by them, commanded the soldiers to go down and take him by force from among them, and bring him into the barracks.
- Acts 26:30-312 verses64%
30The king rose up with the governor, and Bernice, and those who sat with them.
31When they had withdrawn, they spoke one to another, saying, "This man does nothing worthy of death or of bonds."
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21For this reason the Jews seized me in the temple, and tried to kill me.
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17It happened that after three days Paul called together those who were the leaders of the Jews. When they had come together, he said to them, "I, brothers, though I had done nothing against the people, or the customs of our fathers, still was delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans,
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40For indeed we are in danger of being accused concerning this day's riot, there being no cause. Concerning it, we wouldn't be able to give an account of this commotion."
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33While the day was coming on, Paul begged them all to take some food, saying, "This day is the fourteenth day that you wait and continue fasting, having taken nothing.
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66The whole assembly together was forty-two thousand three hundred sixty,
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7When he had come, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around him, bringing against him many and grievous charges which they could not prove,
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64The whole assembly together was forty-two thousand three hundred sixty,
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8and they conspired all of them together to come and fight against Jerusalem, and to cause confusion therein.
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5They were glad, and agreed to give him money.
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19one who was thrown into prison for a certain revolt in the city, and for murder.
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15But when they had commanded them to go aside out of the council, they conferred among themselves,
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4Some of them were persuaded, and joined Paul and Silas, of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and not a few of the chief women.
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23Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) I am more so; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths often.
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10This I also did in Jerusalem. I both shut up many of the saints in prisons, having received authority from the chief priests, and when they were put to death I gave my vote against them.
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12They stirred up the people, the elders, and the scribes, and came against him and seized him, and brought him in to the council,
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27For truly, in this city against your holy servant, Jesus, whom you anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together
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1Paul, looking steadfastly at the council, said, "Brothers, I have lived before God in all good conscience until this day."
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15and said, "What are you willing to give me, that I should deliver him to you?" They weighed out for him thirty pieces of silver.
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30But on the next day, desiring to know the truth about why he was accused by the Jews, he freed him from the bonds, and commanded the chief priests and all the council to come together, and brought Paul down and set him before them.
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24The children of Azmaveth, forty-two.