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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Until they heard this last statement the people listened to Paul, but now with a roar of disapproval they cried out, "Away with such a fellow from the earth! He ought not to be allowed to live."

"I myself, however, thought it a duty to do many things in hostility to the name of Jesus, the Nazarene.

You will be excluded from the synagogues; nay more, the time is coming when any one who has murdered one of you will suppose he is offering service to God.

Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as if I were out of my mind.)

Chief

and Paul called one of the Captains and said, "Take this young man to the Tribune, for he has information to give him."

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and took their seats in the Judgement Hall, attended by the Tribunes and the men of high rank in the city; and, at the command of Festus, Paul was brought in.

So the battalion and their tribune and the Jewish police closed in, and took Jesus and bound Him.

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"Are you not the Egyptian who some years ago excited the riot of the 4,000 cut-throats, and led them out into the Desert?"

But the jealousy of the Jews was aroused, and, calling to their aid some ill-conditioned and idle fellows, they got together a riotous mob and filled the city with uproar. They then attacked the house of Jason and searched for Paul and Silas, to bring them out before the assembly of people.

For in connexion with to-day's proceedings there is danger of our being charged with attempted insurrection, there having been no real reason for this riot; nor shall we be able to justify the behaviour of this disorderly mob."

But they said, "Not during the Festival, lest there be a riot among the people."

But they said, "Not on the Festival-day, for fear there should be a riot among the people."