The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from King James Bible: fearing lest Paul should have been pulled in pieces of them, commanded
the soldiers to go down, and to take him by force from among them, and
to bring him into the castle.
ACT 23:11 And the night following the Lord stood by him, and said, Be
of good cheer, Paul: for as thou hast testified of me in Jerusalem, so
must thou bear witness also at Rome.
ACT 23:12 And when it was day, certain of the Jews banded together, and
bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor
drink till they had killed Paul.
ACT 23:13 And they were more than forty which had made this conspiracy.
ACT 23:14 And they came to the chief priests and elders, and said, We
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