NEW TESTAMENT · VERSE 20

Acts 23:20

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He said, “The Jews have agreed to ask you to bring Paul down to the council tomorrow, as though intending to inquire somewhat more accurately concerning him.

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Acts 23:17–23

17

Paul summoned one of the centurions and said, “Bring this young man to the commanding officer, for he has something to tell him.”

18

So he took him and brought him to the commanding officer and said, “Paul, the prisoner, summoned me and asked me to bring this young man to you. He has something to tell you.”

19

The commanding officer took him by the hand, and going aside, asked him privately, “What is it that you have to tell me?”

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He said, “The Jews have agreed to ask you to bring Paul down to the council tomorrow, as though intending to inquire somewhat more accurately concerning him.

21

Therefore don’t yield to them, for more than forty men lie in wait for him, who have bound themselves under a curse to neither eat nor drink until they have killed him. Now they are ready, looking for the promise from you.”

22

So the commanding officer let the young man go, charging him, “Tell no one that you have revealed these things to me.”

23

He called to himself two of the centurions, and said, “Prepare two hundred soldiers to go as far as Caesarea, with seventy horsemen and two hundred men armed with spears, at the third hour of the night.”

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