Acts 23:12-15 ▼

12 Now when it was day, the Jews formed a conspiracy and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.

13 And there were more than forty who formed this scheme.

14 They came to the chief priests and the elders and said, “We have bound ourselves under a curse to taste nothing until we have killed Paul.

15 So now you, along with the Sanhedrin, notify the commander to bring him down to you, as though you were going to determine his case more carefully; and we for our part are ready to slay him before he comes near.”