Acts 21:26-36 - The Riot In The Temple Complex

²⁶ Then Paul took the men and the next day, purifying himself with them, entered into the temple to signify the accomplishment of the days of purification until an offering should be offered for each one of them. ²⁷ And when the seven days were almost ended, the Jews, who were of Asia, when they saw him in the temple, stirred up all the people and laid hands on him, ²⁸ crying out, Men of Israel, help; this is the man that teaches everyone everywhere against the people and the law and this place and further brought Greeks also into the temple and has polluted this holy place. ²⁹ (For before this they had seen Trophimus, an Ephesian, with him in the city, whom they supposed that Paul had brought into the temple.)

³⁰ 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. ³¹ And as they went about to kill him, tidings came unto the tribunal of the company that all Jerusalem was in an uproar ³² who immediately took soldiers and centurions and ran down unto them; and when they saw the tribunal and the soldiers, they left off beating Paul. ³³ Then the tribunal came near and took him and commanded him to be bound with two chains and demanded to know who he was and what he had done. ³⁴ And some cried one thing, some another, among the multitude; and when he could not know the certainty for the tumult, he commanded him to be carried into the fortress. ³⁵ And when he came upon the stairs, so it was that he was borne of the soldiers because of the violence of the people. ³⁶ For the multitude of the people followed after, crying, Away with him.