Passage: Acts 23:12-35
Paul is in the custody of the Roman tribune, but he is not yet out of danger from the Jerusalem leadership. A conspiracy forms to ambush Paul en route to the Sanhedrin. This passage reminds us that though the nations rage and its rulers plot, it is all in vain, for the Lord's Anointed rules.
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