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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Mark 14:2

Bible References

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Till he said that, they had listened to him. But at that they shouted, "Away with such a creature from the earth! He is not fit to live!"

I once believed it my duty indeed actively to oppose the name of Jesus the Nazarene.

They will excommunicate you; indeed the time is coming when anyone who kills you will imagine he is performing a service to God.

Ministers of Christ? yes perhaps, but not as much as I am (I am mad to talk like this!), with all my labours, with all my lashes, with all my time in prison ??a record longer far than theirs. I have been often at the point of death;

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Paul summoned one of the officers and said, "Take this young man to the commander, for he has some news to give him."

So next day Agrippa and Bernice proceeded with great pomp to the hall of audience, accompanied by the military commanders and the prominent civilians of the town. Festus then ordered Paul to be brought in.

So the troops and their commander and the Jewish attendants seized Jesus, bound him,

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"Then you are not the Egyptian who in days gone by raised the four thousand assassins and led them out into the desert?"

But the Jews were aroused to jealousy; they got hold of some idle rascals to form a mob and set the town in an uproar; they attacked Jason's house in the endeavour to bring them out before the populace,

Indeed there is a danger of our being charged with riot over to-day's meeting; there is not a single reason we can give for this disorderly gathering."

"Only," they said, "it must not be during the festival, in case of a riot among the people."

"Only," they said, "it must not be during the festival; that would mean a popular riot."