Acts 21:30

All the city was moved and the people ran together. They seized Paul and dragged him out of the temple. Immediately the doors were shut.

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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

29For they had seen Trophimus the Ephesian with him in the city, and they supposed that Paul had brought him into the temple.

31As they were trying to kill him, news came up to the commanding officer of the regiment that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.

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Cross References

Matthew 2:3When King Herod heard it, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.

Luke 4:29They rose up, threw him out of the city, and led him to the brow of the hill that their city was built on, that they might throw him off the cliff.

Acts 16:19But when her masters saw that the hope of their gain was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace before the rulers.

Acts 26:21For this reason the Jews seized me in the temple and tried 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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