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Acts 21:31

And seeking to kill him, a report went up to the commander of the garrison that all Jerusalem had been stirred up,

English Majority Text (NT)

In The King James Version

And as they went about to kill him, tidings came unto the chief captain of the band, that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.

In Context

30And all the city was aroused; and there was a mob forming among the people, and taking hold of Paul they were dragging him outside the temple; and immediately the doors were shut.

32who immediately having taken along soldiers and centurions, ran down among them. And when they saw the commander and the soldiers, they stopped beating Paul.

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Cross References

Mark 14:2But they said, “Not during the feast, lest there be an uproar among the people.” 1 The Anointing at Bethany

John 18:12Then the detachment of soldiers and the captain and the attendants of the Jews arrested Jesus and bound Him.

Acts 17:5And the Jews who did not believe took some wicked men from the marketplace, and forming a mob, they threw the city into disorder, and came upon the house of Jason, and sought to bring them to the people.

Acts 21:38Are you not then the Egyptian who rose up before these days, and led forth the four thousand men of the assassins into the wilderness?”

Acts 23:17And Paul, summoning one of the centurions, said, “Lead this young man away to the commander, for he has something to tell him.”

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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