Acts 23:12-14 New King James Version (NKJV)

12. And when it was day, some of the Jews banded together and bound themselves under an oath, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.

13. Now there were more than forty who had formed this conspiracy.

14. They came to the chief priests and elders, and said, “We have bound ourselves under a great oath that we will eat nothing until we have killed Paul.

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