3 And when he had spent three months there, because a plot+ was hatched against him by the Jews as he was about to set sail for Syria, he made up his mind to return through Mac·e·doʹni·a.

12 Now when it became day, the Jews formed a conspiracy+ and bound themselves with a curse,+ saying they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.+

23 Are they ministers of Christ? I reply like a madman, I am more outstandingly one:+ in labors more plentifully,+ in prisons more plentifully,+ in blows to an excess, in near-deaths often.+