for we have heard him say that Jesus of Nazareth will tear this place down, and change the customs which Moses handed down to us."

how I served the Lord in all humility, with many a tear and many a trial which I encountered owing to the plots of the Jews,

And of yourselves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to tear away disciples after them.

As the dispute was becoming violent, the colonel began to be afraid that they would tear Paul in pieces, and ordered the soldiers to go down and get him away from them and bring him into the barracks.