Acts 9:24 Cross References - Worsley

²⁴ but Saul was apprised of their design. And they watched the gates day and night, to make away with him:

²⁹ and he talked and disputed with the Hellenists, who attempted to kill him: ³⁰ but when the brethren knew it, they brought him down to Cesarea, and sent him away to Tarsus.

⁵ but when there was an effort both of the Gentiles and of the Jews, together with their rulers, to offer violence to them, and to stone them; ⁶ being apprised of it they fled to the cities of Lycaonia, Lystra and Derbe, and the adjacent country:

¹⁰ And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night to Berea: who, when they were come thither, went into the synagogue of the Jews. ¹¹ These were more ingenuous than those at Thessalonica; for they received the word with all readiness of mind, searching the scriptures daily, whether these things were so. ¹² And therefore many of them believed: and of the Grecian women of quality, and of men likewise not a few. ¹³ But when the Jews of Thessalonica knew that the word of God was preached by Paul at Berea, they came thither also, to stir up the people. ¹⁴ Then the brethren immediately sent away Paul towards the sea: but Silas and Timothy remained there. ¹⁵ And they that conducted Paul attended him to Athens: and receiving an order to Silas and Timothy, to come to him as soon as possible, they departed.

³ And when he had spent three months there, the Jews having laid wait for him as he was going to embark for Syria, he determined to return by Macedonia.

¹⁹ Serving the Lord with all humility, and many tears, and trials which befel me by the ambushes of the Jews.

¹² And when it was day, some of the Jews, having formed a conspiracy, bound themselves with a curse, saying, that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul. ¹³ And they were more than forty that had made this oath: ¹⁴ who came to the chief priests and the elders, and said, "We have bound ourselves by a curse to eat nothing till we have killed Paul. ¹⁵ Now therefore do ye with the rest of the sanhedrim signify to the tribune, that he would bring him down to you to-morrow, as if you would examine more accurately some things concerning him: and we are ready to dispatch him before he come near you." ¹⁶ But Paul's sister's son, hearing of the ambush, came and entered into the castle, and told Paul. ¹⁷ Then Paul called one of the centurions to him, and said, Introduce this young man to the tribune; for he hath something to tell him. ¹⁸ So he took him and brought him to the tribune, and said, Paul the prisoner called me to him, and desired me to introduce this young man unto thee, as having something to say to thee. ¹⁹ And the tribune took him by the hand, and retiring into a private apartment asked him, What is it which thou hast to tell me? ²⁰ And he said, The Jews have agreed to desire thee, that thou wouldest bring down Paul to-morrow to the council, as if they would inquire something more strictly concerning him. ²¹ But do not thou comply with them: for there lie in wait for him more than forty men of them, who have bound themselves with a curse neither to eat nor drink till they have killed him: and they are now ready, waiting for an order from thee.

³⁰ But an ambush, which was going to be laid for the man by the Jews, being discovered to me, immediately I sent him to thee, telling his accusers also to say before thee what they had against him. Farewell.

³ begging the favor of him, that he would send for him to Jerusalem; for they were preparing an ambush to kill him by the way.

¹¹ For if I am indeed doing them wrong, and have committed any thing worthy of death, I refuse not to die: but if there be nothing in what these men accuse me of, no one can give me up to them.

³² In Damascus the governor under king Aretas, placed guards about the city to seize me: