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

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And they were hearing him unto this word, and they lifted up their voice, saying, 'Away from the earth with such an one; for it is not fit for him to live.'

I, indeed, therefore, thought with myself, that against the name of Jesus of Nazareth it behoved me many things to do,

out of the synagogues they will put you; but an hour doth come, that every one who hath killed you, may think to offer service unto God;

ministrants of Christ are they? -- as beside myself I speak -- I more; in labours more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, in deaths many times;

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and Paul having called near one of the centurions, said, 'This young man lead unto the chief captain, for he hath something to tell him.'

and Lysias the chief captain having come near, with much violence, out of our hands did take away,

on the morrow, therefore -- on the coming of Agrippa and Bernice with much display, and they having entered into the audience chamber, with the chief captains also, and the principal men of the city, and Festus having ordered -- Paul was brought forth.

The band, therefore, and the captain, and the officers of the Jews, took hold on Jesus, and bound him,

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art not thou, then, the Egyptian who before these days made an uprising, and did lead into the desert the four thousand men of the assassins?'

And the unbelieving Jews, having been moved with envy, and having taken to them of the loungers certain evil men, and having made a crowd, were setting the city in an uproar; having assailed also the house of Jason, they were seeking them to bring them to the populace,

for we are also in peril of being accused of insurrection in regard to this day, there being no occasion by which we shall be able to give an account of this concourse;'

And Adonijah heareth, and all those called, who are with him, and they have finished to eat, and Joab heareth the noise of the trumpet, and saith, 'Wherefore is the noise of the city roaring?'

and they said, 'Not in the feast, that there may not be a tumult among the people.'

and they said, 'Not in the feast, lest there shall be a tumult of the people.'

General references

If from delivering those taken to death, And those slipping to the slaughter -- thou keepest back.