10 Bible Verses about Disorder Among People

But they said: Not during the feast, lest there be a tumult among the people.

But they said: Not during the feast, lest there be a tumult of the people.

When Pilate saw that he gained nothing, but rather that a tumult was rising, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, and said: I am innocent of the blood of this just man; you will see to it.

And at that time there was no little excitement about that way.

But the unbelieving Jews, taking with them some evil men, who were loungers about the markets, and collecting a mob, set the city in an uproar; and having assaulted the house of Jason, they sought to bring them out to the people.

And the whole city was filled with confusion. And they seized Gains and Aristarchus, who were Macedonians, Paul's fellow-travelers, and, with one consent, rushed into the theater.

Some, therefore, were crying one thing, and some another: for the assembly was confused, and the greater part knew not for what they had come together.

For we are in danger of being called to answer for this day's tumult, since there is no cause by which we shall be able to account for this concourse.

And when Jesus came into the house of the ruler, and saw the minstrels and the multitude making lamentation,

And he went in and said to them: Why do you make a tumult and weep? The child is not dead, but sleeps.