Acts 21:35

and when he came on the steps, it happened he was carried by the soldiers, because of the violence of the multitude,

Literal Standard Version

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 some were crying out one thing, and some another, among the multitude, and not being able to know the certainty because of the tumult, he commanded him to be carried into the stronghold,

36for the crowd of the people was following after, crying, “Away with him.”

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Cross References

Genesis 6:11And the earth is corrupt before God, and the earth is filled [with] violence.

Psalms 58:2Even in heart you work iniquities, || In the land you ponder the violence of your hands.

Habakkuk 1:2Until when, O YHWH, have I cried, || And You do not hear? I cry to You, “Violence!” And You do not save.

Acts 24:7and Lysias the chief captain having come near, took away out of our hands with much violence,

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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