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 of them: Then came I with soldiers, and rescued him, and perceived that he was a Roman.

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

And all the city was moved, and the people swarmed together. And they took Paul, and drew him out of the temple, and forthwith the doors were shut to.

lest he devour my soul like a lion, and tear it in pieces, while there is none to help.

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

ye eat the flesh of my people, and flay of their skin; ye break their bones, ye chop them in pieces as it were into a cauldron, and as flesh into a pot.

Wherefore, dear brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to wrath.

But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, rejoice not: neither be liars against the truth.

From whence cometh war, and fighting among you? Come they not here hence, even of your voluptuousness that raineth in your members?

To take

the captain bade him to be brought into the castle: and commanded him to be scourged, and to be examined, that he might know wherefore they cried on him.

General references

Deliver them that go unto death, and are led away to be slain, and be not negligent therein.

So was there dissension among the people about him.

And there was a dissension among the Jews for these sayings,