Acts 23:13
Good News Translation
There were more than forty who planned this together.

New Revised Standard Version
There were more than forty who joined in this conspiracy.

New American Bible
There were more than forty who formed this conspiracy.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they were more than forty men that had made this conspiracy.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And they were more than forty men that had made this conspiracy.

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2 Samuel 15:12,31 Absalom also sent for Achitophel the Gilonite, David's counsellor, from his city Gilo. And while he was offering sacrifices, there was a strong conspiracy, and the people running together increased with Absalom. . . .

John 16:2 They will put you out of the synagogues: yea, the hour cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doth a service to God.

Context
The Plot to Kill Paul
12And when day was come, some of the Jews gathered together and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they killed Paul. 13And they were more than forty men that had made this conspiracy. 14Who came to the chief priests and the ancients and said: We have bound ourselves under a great curse that we will eat nothing till we have slain Paul.…
Cross References
Acts 23:12
And when day was come, some of the Jews gathered together and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they killed Paul.

Acts 23:14
Who came to the chief priests and the ancients and said: We have bound ourselves under a great curse that we will eat nothing till we have slain Paul.

Acts 23:12
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