^{12 Ref} When it was day, some of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.

^{13 Ref} There were more than forty people who had made this conspiracy.

^{14 Ref} They came to the chief priests and the elders, and said, "We have bound ourselves under a great curse, to taste nothing until we have killed Paul.