TSK · Acts 23:30

but their plot became known to Saul. They watched the gates both day and night that they might kill him,

When it was day, some of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.

"I will hear you fully when your accusers also arrive." He commanded that he be kept in Herod's palace.

They ought to have been here before you, and to make accusation, if they had anything against me.

To whom I answered that it is not the custom of the Romans to give up any man to destruction, before the accused has met the accusers face to face, and has had opportunity to make his defense concerning the matter laid against him.