Acts 21:31

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

Montgomery 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

30The 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.

32At once he took soldiers and centurions, and rushed down upon them. When they saw the tribune and the troops, they left off beating Paul.

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Cross References

Mark 14:2but, "Not on a feast-day," they said, "for fear there should be a riot among the people."

John 18:12So the troops and their commandant and the Jewish police took Jesus, and bound him,

Acts 17:5But the Jews, moved with jealousy, called to their aid certain ill- favored and idle fellows, formed a mob, and began to set the town in an uproar. Assaulting the house of Jason, they sought to bring them out to the people.

Acts 21:38"Do you know Greek?" said the tribune; "Are you not, then, the Egyptian who in days gone by stirred up to sedition, and let into the wilderness the four thousand cutthroats?"

Acts 23:17And Paul called one of the centurions, and said, "Take this young man to the tribune, 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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