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Acts 23:15
Acts 23:15 is verse 15 of Acts chapter 23, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Now then, you and the Sanhedrin petition the commander to bring him down to you on the pretext of examining his case more carefully. We are ready to kill him on the way.”
King James Version
Now therefore ye with the council signify to the chief captain that he bring him down unto you to morrow, as though ye would enquire something more perfectly concerning him: and we, or ever he come near, are ready to kill him.
World English Bible
Now therefore, you with the council inform the commanding officer that he should bring him down to you tomorrow, as though you were going to judge his case more exactly. We are ready to kill him before he comes near.”
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Acts 23:13–17 · Berean Standard Bible
13 More than forty of them were involved in this plot.
14 They went to the chief priests and elders and said, “We have bound ourselves with a solemn oath not to eat anything until we have killed Paul.
15 Now then, you and the Sanhedrin petition the commander to bring him down to you on the pretext of examining his case more carefully. We are ready to kill him on the way.”
16 But when the son of Paul’s sister heard about the plot, he went into the barracks and told Paul.
17 Then Paul called one of the centurions and said, “Take this young man to the commander; he has something to tell him.”
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Acts 25:3to grant them a concession against Paul by summoning him to Jerusalem, because they were preparing an ambush to kill him along the way.
Psalms 21:11Though they intend You harm, the schemes they devise will not prevail.
Psalms 37:32Though the wicked lie in wait for the righteous, and seek to slay them,
Psalms 37:33the LORD will not leave them in their power or let them be condemned under judgment.
Proverbs 1:11If they say, “Come along, let us lie in wait for blood, let us ambush the innocent without cause,
Proverbs 1:12let us swallow them alive like Sheol, and whole like those descending into the Pit.
Proverbs 1:16For their feet run to evil, and they are swift to shed blood.
Proverbs 4:16For they cannot sleep unless they do evil; they are deprived of slumber until they make someone fall.
Isaiah 59:7Their feet run to evil; they are swift to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are sinful thoughts; ruin and destruction lie in their wake.
Romans 3:14“Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.”
Romans 3:15“Their feet are swift to shed blood;
Romans 3:16ruin and misery lie in their wake,