-
For, some time ago Theudas appeared, claiming to be somebody, and a group of about four hundred men joined him. But he was killed, and all who followed him were dispersed and came to nothing.
-
You do not intend to kill me as you killed the Egyptian yesterday, do you?’
-
Which one of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? They killed those who had previously announced the coming of the Righteous One, and you have now become betrayers and murderers of Him;
-
A voice came to him, “Get up, Peter, kill and eat!”
-
I also heard a voice saying to me, ‘Get up, Peter; kill and eat.’
-
When the jailer awoke and saw the prison doors opened, he drew his sword and was about to kill himself, thinking that the prisoners had escaped.
-
While they were intent on killing him, a report came up to the commander of the Roman cohort that all Jerusalem was in confusion.
-
And when the blood of Your witness Stephen was being shed, I also was standing nearby and approving, and watching over the cloaks of those who were killing him.’
-
A Conspiracy to Kill Paul
When it was day, the Jews formed a conspiracy and put themselves under an oath, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.
-
They came to the chief priests and the elders and said, “We have put ourselves under an oath to taste nothing until we have killed Paul.
-
Now therefore, you and the Council notify the commander to bring him down to you, as though you were going to investigate his case more thoroughly; and as for us, we are ready to kill him before he comes near the place.”
-
So do not listen to them, for more than forty of them are in hiding to ambush him, and these men have 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.”
-
When this man was seized by the Jews and was about to be killed by them, I came up to them with the troops and rescued him, after learning that he was a Roman.
-
requesting a concession against Paul, that he might have him brought to Jerusalem (at the same time, setting an ambush to kill him on the way).
-
The soldiers’ plan was to kill the prisoners, so that none of them would swim away and escape;