banded together = having made a coalition, i.e. of the two sects. Greek. sustrophe. See note on Act_19:40.
bound . . . curse. Greek. anathematizo. Only here, verses: Act_14:21, and Mar_14:71, where see note.
saying, &c. Josephus records a vow taken by ten men to kill Herod the Great. In a papyrus from Oxyrhyiichus, in the Bodleian Library, there is a letter from an Egyptian boy, threatening that, if his father will not take him to Alexandria, he would neither eat nor drink.