Acts 23:10

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Summary

And when there arose a great dissension, the chief captain, fearing lest Paul should have been pulled in pieces of them, commanded the soldiers to go down, and to take him by force from among them, and to bring him into the castle.

Fearing

To take

Acts 22:24

General references

Proverbs 24:11

John 7:43

John 10:19

Bible References

Fearing

This man, having been taken by the Jews, and being about to be killed by them, I came up with the military and took out of their hands, having learned that he was a Roman.

And having heard this, and being filled with rage, they cried out, saying, Great is Artemis of the Ephesians.

And the whole city was moved, and there was a concourse of the people; and having laid hold on Paul they drew him out of the temple, and immediately the doors were shut.

Lest he tear my soul like a lion, crushing it while there is no deliverer.

Now consider this, ye that forget +God, lest I tear in pieces, and there be no deliverer.

and who eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces as for the pot, and as flesh within the cauldron.

So that, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath;

but if ye have bitter emulation and strife in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth.

Whence come wars and whence fightings among you? Is it not thence, from your pleasures, which war in your members?

To take

the chiliarch commanded him to be brought into the fortress, saying that he should be examined by scourging, that he might ascertain for what cause they cried thus against him.

General references

Deliver them that are taken forth unto death, and withdraw not from them that stagger to slaughter.

There was a division therefore in the crowd on account of him.

There was a division again among the Jews on account of these words;