Acts 23:19-21

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

¹⁹ The commandant took him by the hand, and going aside with him, asked privately, What is it that you have to report to me?

²⁰ And he replied, The Jews have agreed to ask you to bring Paul down to the council (Sanhedrin) tomorrow, as if [they were] intending to examine him more exactly.

²¹ But do not yield to their persuasion, for more than forty of their men are lying in ambush waiting for him, having bound themselves by an oath and under a curse neither to eat nor drink till they have killed him; and even now they are all ready, [just] waiting for your promise.