Acts 21:35

When he came to the steps, he was carried by the soldiers because of the crowd's violence.

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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

34Some in the crowd were shouting one thing and others another. Since the captain could not tell anything because of all the noise, he ordered that Paul be brought into the fortress.

36For the crowd of people followed after and kept shouting out, “Away with him!”

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Cross References

Genesis 6:11The earth was corrupt before God, and it was filled with violence.

Psalms 58:2No, you commit wickedness in your heart; 1 you distribute violence throughout the land with your hands. 1

Habakkuk 1:2“Yahweh, how long will I cry for help, and you will not hear? 1 I cry out to you, 'Violence!' but you will not save. 1

Acts 24:7+ 24:7 Some ancient copies have vs 7, But Lysias, the officer, came and took him by force out of our hands .

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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