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Acts 21:31

And as they were attempting to murder him, the report reached the military tribune of the band, that all Jerusalem was in confusion.

Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament

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

30And the whole city was in motion, and there was a concourse of people assembled: and laying hands on Paul, they dragged him out of the temple; and immediately the doors were shut.

32Who instantly taking soldiers and centurions ran down unto them: and when they saw the tribune and the soldiers, they left off beating Paul.

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Cross References

Mark 14:2But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be a commotion among the people.

John 18:12The band therefore, and the chief captain, and the inferior officers of the Jews, seized on Jesus, and bound him,

Acts 17:5But the unbelieving Jews, roused to a fit of zeal, and taking some of the lowest vulgar men of vile characters, and raising a mob, set the city in an uproar, and besetting the house of Jason, sought them to bring them unto the people.

Acts 21:38Art not thou certainly that Egyptian who some time since raised a sedition, and led out into the desert four thousand cutthroats?

Acts 23:17Then Paul calling to him one of the centurions, said, Carry this young man to the tribune: for he hath something to communicate to 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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