Acts 21:31
They were bent upon killing him, when it was reported to the Officer commanding the garrison, that all Jerusalem was in commotion.
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Mark 14:2for they said: “Not during the Festival, for fear of a riot.”
John 18:12So the soldiers of the garrison, with their Commanding Officer and the Jewish police, arrested Jesus and bound him,
Acts 17:5But the Jews, becoming jealous, engaged some worthless fellows from the streets, and, getting a mob together, kept the city in an uproar. They attacked Jason’s house, with the intention of bringing Paul and Silas before the Popular Assembly;
Acts 21:38“Are not you, then, the Egyptian who some time ago raised an insurrection and led the four thousand Bandits out into the Wilderness?”
Acts 23:17Paul called one of the Captains of the garrison and asked him to take the lad to the Commanding Officer, as he had 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 →