For I have heard the slander of many; fear is on every side; while they take counsel together against me, they have plotted to take away my life.

My soul is among lions; I lie among the sons of men who are on fire, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

Hide me from the counsel of the wicked, from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity,

so that they may shoot at the perfect one from a hiding place; suddenly they shoot at him and do not fear.

Now the chief priests, the elders, and all the council sought false testimony against Jesus to put Him to death,

but found none. Even though many false witnesses came forward, they found none. But at last two false witnesses came forward

Then they said, Come and let us devise schemes against Jeremiah. For the Law shall not perish from the priest, nor wisdom from the wise, nor the Word from the prophet. Come and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not pay attention to any of his words.

In it was written: It is reported among the nations, and Geshem says, that you and the Jews plan to rebel; for which reason, according to these rumors, you are rebuilding the wall, that you may be their king.

Then I sent to him, saying, No such things as you say are being done, but you contrive them out of your own heart.

Afterward I came to the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah, the son of Mehetabel, who was under restraints; and he said, Let us gather in the house of God, inside the temple, and let us close the doors of the temple, for they are coming to kill you; indeed, at night they will come to kill you.

Then I perceived that God had not sent him, but that he had spoken this prophecy against me because Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.

He who hides hatred with lying lips, and he who sends out a slander, is a fool.

those who induce a man to sin by a word, and lay a snare for the judge in the gate, and turn aside the just for vanity.

In you are men who slander to cause bloodshed; in you they eat on the mountains; in your midst they commit lewdness.

So they watched Him, and sent spies who pretended to be righteous, that they might seize on one of His words, in order to deliver Him to the power and the authority of the governor.

Then they secretly induced men to say, We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God.

They also set up false witnesses who said, This man does not cease to speak blasphemous words against this holy place and the Law;

And all who sat in the council, gazing at him, saw his face as if it were the face of an angel.

And after five days Ananias the high priest came down with the elders and a certain orator named Tertullus. These made declarations to the governor against Paul.

we accept it always and in all places, most noble Felix, with all thankfulness.

For we have found this man pestilent, a mover of insurrection among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.

But the commander Lysias came by and with great violence took him out of our hands,

And the Jews also assented, alleging that these things were so.

My circle of friends have abhorred me, and those whom I have loved have turned against me.

Even the man of peace in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, has lifted up his heel against me.

but it is you, a man my equal, my friend and acquaintance.

We took sweet counsel together, and walked to the house of God in the throng.

And as He said these things to them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to quarrel with Him forcefully, and to cross-examine Him about many things,

lying in wait for Him, and seeking to catch Him in something He might say, in order to accuse Him.

For from now on five in one house will be divided: three against two, and two against three.

Father will be divided against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

And Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I do not make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time.

So Ahab said to Elijah, Have you found me, O my enemy? And he answered, I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do evil in the eyes of Jehovah:

And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man, Micaiah the son of Imlah, by whom we may inquire of Jehovah; but I hate him, because he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so!

and say, Thus says the king: Put this fellow in prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and water of affliction, until I come in peace.

Therefore Herodias held it against him and wanted to kill him, but was not able;

Then an opportune day came when Herod on his birthday made a feast for his nobles, the high officers, and the chief men of Galilee.

He also swore to her, Whatever you ask me, I will give you, up to half of my kingdom.

And immediately she came in with haste to the king and asked, saying, I want you to give me on a platter at once the head of John the Immerser.

And immediately the king sent an executioner and commanded his head to be brought. And he went and beheaded him in prison,

When they heard this, they were cut to the heart and took counsel to do away with them.

When they heard these things they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed at him with their teeth.

And when it was day, some of the Jews made a pact and bound themselves under an oath, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they should kill Paul.

And they came to the chief priests and elders, and said, We have bound ourselves under a great oath that we will eat nothing until we have killed Paul.