¹⁴ They came to the chief priests and the elders and said, “We have ^(A)put ourselves under an ^[a]oath to taste nothing until we have killed Paul.

²¹ So do not ^[a]listen to them, for more than forty ^[b]of them are ^(A)in hiding to ambush him, and these men have ^(B)put themselves under an oath not to eat or drink until they kill him; and now they are ready and waiting for assurance from you.”