11. The following night the Lord stood by him and said, “Take courage, for as you have testified to the facts about me in Jerusalem, so you must testify also in Rome.”
12. When it was day, the Jews made a plot and bound themselves by an oath neither to eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.
13. There were more than forty who made this conspiracy.
14. They 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.