Acts 23:12-18

¹²And when it was day, some of the Jews formed a conspiracy by binding themselves with a curse neither to eat nor to drink until they had destroyed Paul.

¹³Now there were more than forty who formed this plot.

¹⁴They came to the chief priests and the elders and said: “We have bound ourselves with a terrible curse not to taste anything until we have killed Paul.

¹⁵Now you, therefore, together with the council, explain to the commander that he should bring him down to you tomorrow, as though you are going to determine more accurately the facts in his case; but we are ready to destroy him before he comes near.”

¹⁶But when Paul's sister's son heard about the ambush, he went and entered the barracks and told Paul.

¹⁷So Paul called one of the centurions and said, “Take this young man to the commander, because he has something to tell him.”

¹⁸So he took him and brought him to the commander and said, “Paul the prisoner called me over and asked me to bring this young man to you because he has something to tell you.”