Acts 23:11-13

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

¹¹ And [that same] following night the Lord stood beside Paul and said, Take courage, Paul, for as you have borne faithful witness concerning Me at Jerusalem, so you must also bear witness at Rome.

¹² Now when daylight came, the Jews formed a plot and bound themselves by an oath and under a curse neither to eat nor drink till they had done away with Paul.

¹³ There were more than forty [men of them], who formed this conspiracy [swearing together this oath and curse].