Acts 21:31

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Summary

And as they went about to kill him, tidings came unto the chief captain of the band, that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.

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General references

Proverbs 24:11

Bible References

As

And they heard him until this word. And they lifted up their voice, saying, Away with such a man from the earth, for he is not fit to live.

Indeed therefore I thought it necessary for myself to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus the Nazarene,

They will make you excommunicated from the synagogues. But the hour comes that every man who kills you will presume to be offering service to God.

Are they helpers of Christ? (I speak as being mad) I more: in toils, more abundantly; in stripes, countless; in prisons, more frequently; in deaths often.

Chief

And Paul, having called one of the centurions, said, Take this young man to the chief captain, for he has something to inform him.

[This verse is not in the majority of the Greek manuscripts.]

Therefore on the morrow, Agrippa and Bernice having come with great pomp, and having entered into the courtroom, and with the chief captains and the men of prominence who were of the city, and Festus who commanded, Paul was brought

So the band, and the chief captain, and the subordinates of the Jews, arrested Jesus and bound him,

That all

Then thou are not the Egyptian who revolted before these days, and who led out into the wilderness the four thousand men of the Assassins?

But the disobedient Jews having taken along certain evil men of the marketplaces, and having gathered a mob, were rioting the city. And having stood by the house of Jason, they sought to bring them out to the populace.

For we are also in danger to be accused about the uproar today, there being no cause about which we can give account of this commotion.

And Adonijah and all the guests who were with him heard it as they had made an end of eating. And when Joab heard the sound of the trumpet, he said, Why is this noise of the city being in an uproar?

But they said, Not during the feast, lest an uproar develop among people.

but they said, Not during the feast, lest there will be an uproar of the people.

General references

Deliver those who are carried away to death, and hold thou back those who are ready to be slain.