Acts 21:31

and they seeking to kill him, a rumor came to the chief captain of the band that all Jerusalem has been thrown into confusion,

Literal Standard Version

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

30All the city was also moved and there was a running together of the people, and having laid hold on Paul, they were drawing him out of the temple, and immediately were the doors shut,

32who, at once, having taken soldiers and centurions, ran down on them, and they having seen the chief captain and the soldiers, left off beating Paul.

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Cross References

1 Kings 1:41And Adonijah hears, and all those called who [are] with him, and they have finished to eat, and Joab hears the noise of the horn and says, “Why [is] the noise of the city roaring?”

Mark 14:2and they said, “Not in the celebration, lest there will be a tumult of the people.”

John 18:12The band, therefore, and the captain, and the officers of the Jews, took hold on Jesus, and bound Him,

Acts 17:5And the Jews, having been moved with envy, and having taken to themselves certain evil men of the agitators, and having made a crowd, were setting the city in an uproar; having also assailed the house of Jason, they were seeking them to bring [them] to the populace,

Acts 21:38Are you not, then, the Egyptian who made an uprising before these days, and led the four thousand men of the assassins into the desert?”

Acts 23:17and Paul having called near one of the centurions, said, “Lead this young man to the chief captain, 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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