Acts 23:21

Webster's Bible (1833)

Therefore 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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  • Acts 23:12-14 : 12 When 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. 13 There were more than forty people who had made this conspiracy. 14 They 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.
  • Acts 25:3 : 3 asking a favor against him, that he would summon him to Jerusalem; plotting to kill him on the way.
  • Rom 9:3 : 3 For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brothers' sake, my relatives according to the flesh,
  • 2 Cor 11:26 : 26 I have been in travels often, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from my countrymen, perils from the Gentiles, perils in the city, perils in the wilderness, perils in the sea, perils among false brothers;
  • 2 Cor 11:32-33 : 32 In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king guarded the city of the Damascenes desiring to arrest me. 33 Through a window I was let down in a basket by the wall, and escaped his hands.
  • Exod 23:2 : 2 You shall not follow a crowd to do evil; neither shall you testify in court to side with a multitude to pervert justice;
  • Acts 9:23-24 : 23 When many days were fulfilled, the Jews conspired together to kill him, 24 but their plot became known to Saul. They watched the gates both day and night that they might kill him,
  • Acts 14:5-6 : 5 When some of both the Gentiles and the Jews, with their rulers, made a violent attempt to mistreat and stone them, 6 they became aware of it, and fled to the cities of Lycaonia, Lystra, Derbe, and the surrounding region.
  • Acts 20:19 : 19 serving the Lord with all humility, with many tears, and with trials which happened to me by the plots of the Jews;

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  • Acts 23:10-20
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    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.

    11The following night, the Lord stood by him, and said, "Cheer up, Paul, for as you have testified about me at Jerusalem, so you must testify also at Rome."

    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.

    13There were more than forty people who had made this conspiracy.

    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."

    16But Paul's sister's son heard of their lying in wait, and he came and entered into the barracks and told Paul.

    17Paul summoned one of the centurions, and said, "Bring this young man to the commanding officer, for he has something to tell him."

    18So he took him, and brought him to the commanding officer, and said, "Paul, the prisoner, summoned me and asked me to bring this young man to you, who has something to tell you."

    19The commanding officer took him by the hand, and going aside, asked him privately, "What is it that you have to tell me?"

    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.

  • Acts 23:22-24
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    22So the commanding officer let the young man go, charging him, "Tell no one that you have revealed these things to me."

    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.

  • Acts 23:30-31
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    73%

    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.

  • Acts 25:2-3
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    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.

  • Acts 21:22-23
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    22What then? The assembly must certainly meet, for they will hear that you have come.

    23Therefore do what we tell you. We have four men who have taken a vow.

  • Acts 21:31-33
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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.

    32Immediately he took soldiers and centurions, and ran down to them. They, when they saw the chief captain and the soldiers, stopped beating Paul.

    33Then the commanding officer came near, arrested him, commanded him to be bound with two chains, and inquired who he was and what he had done.

  • Acts 22:29-30
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    29Immediately those who were about to examine him departed from him, and the commanding officer also was afraid when he realized that he was a Roman, because he had bound him.

    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.

  • Acts 9:23-24
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    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 21:38
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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 27:33
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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.

  • Acts 26:21
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    21For this reason the Jews seized me in the temple, and tried to kill me.

  • Acts 21:11-13
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    11Coming to us, and taking Paul's belt, he bound his own feet and hands, and said, "Thus says the Holy Spirit: 'So will the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man who owns this belt, and will deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.'"

    12When we heard these things, both we and they of that place begged him not to go up to Jerusalem.

    13Then Paul answered, "What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus."

  • Acts 25:15
    69%

    15about whom, when I was at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews informed me, asking for a sentence against him.

  • Acts 28:17
    69%

    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,

  • Acts 24:23
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    23He ordered the centurion that Paul should be kept in custody, and should have some privileges, and not to forbid any of his friends to serve him or to visit him.

  • Acts 21:27
    69%

    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,

  • Acts 19:31
    68%

    31Certain also of the Asiarchs, being his friends, sent to him and begged him not to venture into the theater.

  • Judg 15:12
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    12They said to him, We have come down to bind you, that we may deliver you into the hand of the Philistines. Samson said to them, Swear to me that you will not fall on me yourselves.

  • Acts 27:42-43
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    68%

    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 22:25-26
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    67%

    25When they had tied him up with thongs, Paul asked the centurion who stood by, "Is it lawful for you to scourge a man who is a Roman, and not found guilty?"

    26When the centurion heard it, he went to the commanding officer and told him, "Watch what you are about to do, for this man is a Roman!"

  • Luke 22:6
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    6He consented, and sought an opportunity to deliver him to them in the absence of the multitude.

  • Acts 25:6
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    6When he had stayed among them more than ten days, he went down to Caesarea, and on the next day he sat on the judgment seat, and commanded Paul to be brought.

  • Acts 25:24
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    24Festus said, "King Agrippa, and all men who are here present with us, you see this man, about whom all the multitude of the Jews petitioned me, both at Jerusalem and here, crying that he ought not to live any longer.

  • Acts 26:31
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    31When they had withdrawn, they spoke one to another, saying, "This man does nothing worthy of death or of bonds."

  • Matt 26:4
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    4They took counsel together that they might take Jesus by deceit, and kill him.

  • Acts 24:11
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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.

  • Acts 28:21
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    21They said to him, "We neither received letters from Judea concerning you, nor did any of the brothers come here and report or speak any evil of you.