While they were trying to kill him, a report was sent up to the commanding officer of the cohort that all Jerusalem was in confusion.

Now the soldiers’ plan was to kill the prisoners so that none of them would escape by swimming away.

You killed the Originator of life, whom God raised from the dead. To this fact we are witnesses!

When morning came, the Jews formed a conspiracy and bound themselves with an oath not to eat or drink anything until they had killed Paul.

They went to the chief priests and the elders and said, “We have bound ourselves with a solemn oath not to partake of anything until we have killed Paul.

Which of the prophets did your ancestors not persecute? They killed those who foretold long ago the coming of the Righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers you have now become!