Acts 21:35

But when he got upon the stairs it was so that he was borne by the soldiers on account of the violence of the crowd.

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

And when he came upon the stairs, so it was, that he was borne of the soldiers for the violence of the people.

In Context

34And different persons cried some different thing in the crowd. But he, not being able to know the certainty on account of the uproar, commanded him to be brought into the fortress.

36For the multitude of the people followed, crying, Away with him.

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Cross References

Genesis 6:11And the earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was full of violence.

Psalms 58:2Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth.

Habakkuk 1:2Jehovah, how long shall I cry and thou wilt not hear? I cry out unto thee, Violence! and thou dost not save.

Acts 24:7but Lysias, the chiliarch, coming up, took [him] away with great force out of our hands,

Matthew Henry on Acts 21:28-40

Paul Seized in the Temple; The Tumult at Jerusalem. 27 And when the seven days were almost ended, the Jews which were of Asia, when they saw him in the temple, stirred up all the people, and laid hands on him, 28 Crying out, Men of Israel, help: This is the man, that teacheth all men every where against the people, and the law, and this place: and further brought Greeks also into the temple, and hath polluted this holy place. 29 (For they had seen before with him in the city Trophimus an Ephesian, whom they… Read the whole commentary →

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