7. When Paul said this, a big argument started between the Pharisees and the Sadducees. The group was divided.
8. (The Sadducees believe that after people die, they will not live again as an angel or as a spirit. But the Pharisees believe in both.)
9. All these Jews began shouting louder and louder. Some of the teachers of the law, who were Pharisees, stood up and argued, “We find nothing wrong with this man. Maybe an angel or a spirit really did speak to him.”
10. The argument turned into a fight, and the commander was afraid that the Jews would tear Paul to pieces. So he told the soldiers to go down and take Paul away from these Jews and put him in the army building.
11. The next night the Lord Jesus came and stood by Paul. He said, “Be brave! You have told people in Jerusalem about me. You must do the same in Rome.”
12. The next morning some of the Jews made a plan to kill Paul. They made a promise to themselves that they would not eat or drink anything until they had killed him.
13. There were more than 40 of them who made this plan.