¹⁵ about whom, when I was at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews informed `me', asking for sentence against him.

⁹ If it please the king, let it be written that they be destroyed: and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver into the hands of those that have the charge of the `king's' business, to bring it into the king's treasuries.

³ and there was a widow in that city; and she came oft unto him, saying, Avenge me of mine adversary.

⁴ And he would not for a while: but afterward he said within himself, Though I fear not God, nor regard man;

⁵ yet because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her, lest she wear me out by her continual coming.

²³ But they were urgent with loud voices, asking that he might be crucified. And their voices prevailed.

¹ And after five days the high priest Ananias came down with certain elders, and `with' an orator, one Tertullus; and they informed the governor against Paul.

¹ Festus therefore, having come into the province, after three days went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea.

² And the chief priests and the principal men of the Jews informed him against Paul; and they besought him,

³ asking a favor against him, that he would send for him to Jerusalem; laying a plot to kill him on the way.