Acts 21:26-36 - The Riot In The Temple Complex
26 Then Paul took the men along with him and on the next day went into the temple with them, purified, and announced the time when the purification would be completed, when the sacrifice for each one of them could be offered. 27 As the seven days were drawing to a close, the Jews from Asia caught a glimpse of him in the temple and began to stir up all the crowd, and seized him, 28 as they kept shouting, "Men of Israel, help! help! This is the man who teaches everybody everywhere against our people and the law and this place; yea, more than that, he has actually brought Greeks into the temple and desecrated this sacred place." 29 For they had previously seen Trophimus of Ephesus in the city with him, and so they supposed that Paul had brought him into the temple.
30 The whole city was stirred with excitement, and all at once the people rushed together, and seized Paul and dragged him out of the temple, and its gates at once were shut. 31 Now while they were trying to kill him, news reached the colonel of the regiment that all Jerusalem was in a ferment. 32 So he at once got together some soldiers and captains and hurried down against them, but as soon as they saw the colonel and his soldiers, they stopped beating Paul. 33 Then the colonel came up and seized Paul and ordered him to be bound with two chains; he then asked who he was and what he had done. 34 But they kept shouting in the crowd, some one thing, some another. As he could not with certainty find out about it, because of the tumult, he ordered him to be brought into the barracks. 35 When Paul got to the steps, he was actually borne by the soldiers because of the violence of the mob, 36 for a tremendous crowd of people kept following them and shouting, "Away with him!"