ThensaidPaulunto him, God shallsmitethee, thouwhitedwall: for sittestthou to judge me after the law, and commandest me to be smittencontrary to the law?
But whenPaulperceivedthat the one partwereSadducees, and the otherPharisees, he cried out in the council, Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee: of the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question.
And therearose a great cry: and the scribesthatwere of the Pharisees’partarose, and strove, saying, We find no evil in this man: but if a spirit or an angelhathspoken to him, let us not fightagainst God.
And whentherearose a greatdissension, the chiefcaptain, fearinglestPaulshouldhavebeenpulled in pieces of them, commanded the soldiers to go down, and to take him by forcefromamongthem, and to bring him into the castle.
And the nightfollowing the Lordstood by him, and said, Be of goodcheer, Paul: for as thouhasttestified of me in Jerusalem, so mustthoubearwitnessalso at Rome.
And when it was day, certain of the Jewsbandedtogether, and boundthemselvesunder a curse, sayingthattheywouldneither eat nor drinktillthey had killedPaul.
Now therefore ye with the councilsignify to the chiefcaptainthat he bring him downunto you to morrow, as though ye wouldenquiresomethingmoreperfectlyconcerning him: and we, or ever he comenear, are ready to kill him.
So he took him, and brought him to the chiefcaptain, and said, Paul the prisonercalled me unto him, and prayed me to bringthisyoung man untothee, who hathsomething to say untothee.
And he said, The Jewshaveagreed to desiretheethatthouwouldestbringdownPaul to morrowinto the council, as thoughtheywouldenquiresomewhat of him moreperfectly.
But do not thouyielduntothem: for there lie in wait for him of themmorethanforty men, whichhaveboundthemselveswith an oath, thattheywillneither eat nor drinktilltheyhavekilled him: and now are theyready, looking for a promisefromthee.
And he calledunto him two centurions, saying, Makeready two hundredsoldiers to go to Caesarea, and horsementhreescore and ten, and spearmen two hundred, at the thirdhour of the night;
And when it was told me how that the Jewslaidwait for the man, I sentstraightway to thee, and gavecommandment to his accusersalso to say beforetheewhatthey had against him. Farewell.