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 was taken of the Jews and should have been killed by them; then I came with an army and rescued him, having understood that he was a Roman.

And when they heard these sayings, they were full of wrath and cried out, saying, Great is Diana of the Ephesians.

So that all the city was moved, and the people ran together; and they took Paul and drew him out of the temple, and immediately the doors were shut.

Lest they take my soul, as a lion dismembers his prey when there is none to deliver.

Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I take you away, and there be none to deliver.

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

Therefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath;

But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, boast not and do not be liars against the truth.

Where do the wars and disputes come from among you? From here that is to say, of your lusts which fight in your members?

To take

the tribunal commanded him to be brought into the fortress and bade that he should be examined by scourging that he might know why they cried out so against him.

General references

If thou forbear to deliver those that are drawn unto death and those that are ready to be slain,

So there was a division among the people because of him.

There was a division therefore again among the Jews for these words.