Acts 21:30

Then the entire city was in an uproar, and the people rushed together. They seized Paul and dragged him out of the temple courts, and the gates were immediately shut.

Text-Critical English NT

In The King James Version

And all the city was moved, and the people ran together: and they took Paul, and drew him out of the temple: and forthwith the doors were shut.

In Context

29(For they had seen Trophimus the Ephesian in the city with Paul, and they assumed that Paul had brought him into the inner courts of the temple.)

31But as they were trying to kill him, a report went up to the commander of the Roman cohort that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.

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Cross References

Matthew 2:3When Herod the king heard this, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.

Luke 4:29They rose up, drove him out of town, and brought him to the brow of the hill on which their town was built, to throw him down from the cliff.

Acts 16:19When her masters saw that their hope for profit was gone, they seized Paul and Silas, dragged them to the marketplace, and set them before the authorities.

Acts 26:21That is why the Jews seized me in the temple courts and were trying to kill me.

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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