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13 Now there were more than forty having made[a] this sworn-pact— 14 who, having gone to the chief priests and the elders, said, “With a curse[b], we bound ourselves under-a-curse to eat nothing until which time we kill Paul. 15 Now therefore, you, along with the Sanhedrin, notify the commander so that he may bring him down to you, as-though you are intending to determine the things concerning him more accurately. And we are prepared that we might kill him before he draws-near”.

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 23:13 Or, formed this conspiracy.
  2. Acts 23:14 With a curse... under-a-curse. This a a Hebrew way of speaking, meaning ‘We bound ourselves under a solemn curse’. They said ‘May God curse us if we eat before we kill Paul’.

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