Acts 25:3
“And desired favour against him, that he would send for him to Jerusalem, laying wait in the way to kill him.”
Now when Festus was come into the province, after three days he ascended from Cesarea to Jerusalem.
Then the high priest and the chief of the Jews informed him against Paul, and besought him,
And desired favour against him, that he would send for him to Jerusalem, laying wait in the way to kill him.
But Festus answered, that Paul should be kept at Cesarea, and that he himself would depart shortly thither.
Let them therefore, said he, which among you are able, go down with me, and accuse this man, if there be any wickedness in him.
Cross-References
“And when it was day, certain of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.”
“Then they suborned men, which said, We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses, and against God.”
“Nevertheless the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah, that they should not give him into the hand of the people to put him to death.”
“If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:”
“Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity:”