Acts 21:31

But 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.

Text-Critical English 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

30Then 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.

32At once he took soldiers and centurions and ran down to them. When the mob 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, otherwise there will be a riot among the people.”

John 18:12Then the cohort of soldiers, along with its commander and the Jewish officers, arrested Jesus, bound him,

Acts 17:5But the Jews who refused to believe rounded up some evil men from the marketplace and formed a mob, setting the city in an uproar. They attacked Jason's house, seeking to bring Paul and Silas out to the public assembly.

Acts 21:38Then yoʋ are not the Egyptian who before these days incited a revolt and led four thousand men of the Assassins out into the wilderness?”

Acts 23:17Then Paul called one of the centurions over and said, “Take this young man 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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