7 As soon as Paul said this, the Pharisees and the Sadducees got into a big argument, and the council members started taking sides.
8 The Sadducees do not believe in angels or spirits or that the dead will rise to life. But the Pharisees believe in all these,
9 and so there was a lot of shouting. Some of the teachers of the Law of Moses were Pharisees. Finally, they became angry and said, “We don't find anything wrong with this man. Perhaps a spirit or an angel really did speak to him.”
10 The argument became fierce, and the commander was afraid that Paul would be pulled apart. So he ordered the soldiers to go in and rescue Paul. Then they took him back into the fortress.
11 That night the Lord stood beside Paul and said, “Don't worry! Just as you have told others about me in Jerusalem, you must also tell about me in Rome.”
12-13 The next morning more than forty Jewish men got together and vowed that they would not eat or drink anything until they had killed Paul.
14 Then some of them went to the chief priests and the nation's leaders and said, “We have promised God that we would not eat a thing until we have killed Paul.