Acts 21:30

The whole city was thrown into uproar. The mob surged together, seized Paul, and began to drag him outside the temple. Whereupon the doors were at once shut.

Montgomery New Testament

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 formerly seen Trophimus, the Ephesian, with him in the city, and supposed that Paul had brought him into the temple.)

31While they were attempting to kill him, news came to the tribune commander of the garrison that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.

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Cross References

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

Luke 4:29they rose, hurried him outside the town, and brought him to the brow of the hill on which their city was built, intending to cast him down headlong.

Acts 16:19But when her owners saw that their hopes of gain were gone, they seized Paul and Silas, and dragged them before the magistrates, into the market-place.

Acts 26:21"For 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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