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Acts 25:3
asking favour against him, that he may send for him to Jerusalem, making an ambush to put him to death in the way.
Acts 25:3 · Young's Literal Translation
Acts 25:3 in other translations
And desired favour against him, that he would send for him to Jerusalem, laying wait in the way to kill him.
to grant them a concession against Paul by summoning him to Jerusalem, because they were preparing an ambush to kill him along the way.
asking a favor against him, that he would summon him to Jerusalem, plotting to kill him on the way.
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In context
1 Festus, therefore, having come into the province, after three days went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea,
2 and the chief priest and the principal men of the Jews made manifest to him the things against Paul, and were calling on him,
3 asking favour against him, that he may send for him to Jerusalem, making an ambush to put him to death in the way.
4 Then, indeed, Festus answered that Paul is kept in Caesarea, and himself is about speedily to go on thither,
5 `Therefore those able among you--saith he--having come down together, if there be anything in this man--let them accuse him;'
6 and having tarried among them more than ten days, having gone down to Caesarea, on the morrow having sat upon the tribunal, he commanded Paul to be brought;
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