Acts 21:30-31
30Then all the city was stirred up, and the people ran together. They seized Paul and adragged him out of the temple, and at once the gates were shut. 31 bAnd as they were seeking to kill him, word came to the tribune of cthe cohort that all Jerusalem was in confusion.Acts 22:22
Paul and the Roman Tribune
22Up to this word they listened to him. Then they raised their voices and said, d“Away with such a fellow from the earth! For ehe should not be allowed to live.”Acts 23:12-15
A Plot to Kill Paul
12When it was day, fthe Jews made a plot and gbound themselves by an oath neither to eat nor drink till they had killed Paul. 13There were more than forty who made this conspiracy. 14They went to the chief priests and elders and said, “We have strictly bound ourselves by an oath to taste no food till we have killed Paul. 15Now therefore you, along with the council, give notice to the tribune to bring him down to you, as though you were going to determine his case more exactly. And we are ready to kill him before he comes near.”Acts 25:3
3asking as a favor against Paul ▼▼Greek him
that he summon him to Jerusalem—because ithey were planning an ambush to kill him on the way.
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