Acts 21:32

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

He immediately took soldiers and centurions and ran down to the crowd. When they saw the commanding officer and the soldiers, they stopped beating Paul.

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  • Acts 23:27 : 27 This man was seized by the Jews and they were about to kill him, when I came up with the detachment and rescued him, because I had learned that he was a Roman citizen.
  • Acts 24:6 : 6 He even tried to desecrate the temple, so we arrested him.
  • Isa 3:15 : 15 Why do you crush my people and grind the faces of the poor?” The Sovereign LORD of Heaven’s Armies has spoken.
  • Acts 5:40 : 40 and they summoned the apostles and had them beaten. Then they ordered them not to speak in the name of Jesus and released them.
  • Acts 18:17 : 17 So they all seized Sosthenes, the president of the synagogue, and began to beat him in front of the judgment seat. Yet none of these things were of any concern to Gallio.
  • Acts 22:19 : 19 I replied,‘Lord, they themselves know that I imprisoned and beat those in the various synagogues who believed in you.
  • Acts 23:23-24 : 23 Then he summoned two of the centurions and said,“Make ready two hundred soldiers to go to Caesarea along with seventy horsemen and two hundred spearmen by nine o’clock tonight, 24 and provide mounts for Paul to ride so that he may be brought safely to Felix the governor.”

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  • Acts 21:29-31
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    29(For they had seen Trophimus the Ephesian in the city with him previously, and they assumed Paul had brought him into the inner temple courts.)

    30The whole city was stirred up, and the people rushed together. They seized Paul and dragged him out of the temple courts, and immediately the doors were shut.

    31While they were trying to kill him, a report was sent up to the commanding officer of the cohort that all Jerusalem was in confusion.

  • Acts 21:33-37
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    33Then the commanding officer came up and arrested him and ordered him to be tied up with two chains; he then asked who he was and what he had done.

    34But some in the crowd shouted one thing, and others something else, and when the commanding officer was unable to find out the truth because of the disturbance, he ordered Paul to be brought into the barracks.

    35When he came to the steps, Paul had to be carried by the soldiers because of the violence of the mob,

    36for a crowd of people followed them, screaming,“Away with him!”

    37As Paul was about to be brought into the barracks, he said to the commanding officer,“May I say something to you?” The officer replied,“Do you know Greek?

  • Acts 23:10
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    10When the argument became so great the commanding officer feared that they would tear Paul to pieces, he ordered the detachment to go down, take him away from them by force, and bring him into the barracks.

  • Acts 22:29-30
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    29Then those who were about to interrogate him stayed away from him, and the commanding officer was frightened when he realized that Paul was a Roman citizen and that he had had him tied up.

    30Paul Before the Sanhedrin The next day, because the commanding officer wanted to know the true reason Paul was being accused by the Jews, he released him and ordered the chief priests and the whole council to assemble. He then brought Paul down and had him stand before them.

  • Acts 22:23-27
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    23While they were screaming and throwing off their cloaks and tossing dust in the air,

    24the commanding officer ordered Paul to be brought back into the barracks. He told them to interrogate Paul by beating him with a lash so that he could find out the reason the crowd was shouting at Paul in this way.

    25When they had stretched him out for the lash, Paul said to the centurion standing nearby,“Is it legal for you to lash a man who is a Roman citizen without a proper trial?”

    26When the centurion heard this, he went to the commanding officer and reported it, saying,“What are you about to do? For this man is a Roman citizen.”

    27So the commanding officer came and asked Paul,“Tell me, are you a Roman citizen?” He replied,“Yes.”

  • Acts 23:30-32
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    30When I was informed there would be a plot against this man, I sent him to you at once, also ordering his accusers to state their charges against him before you.

    31So the soldiers, in accordance with their orders, took Paul and brought him to Antipatris during the night.

    32The next day they let the horsemen go on with him, and they returned to the barracks.

  • Acts 16:35-38
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    35At daybreak the magistrates sent their police officers, saying,“Release those men.”

    36The jailer reported these words to Paul, saying,“The magistrates have sent orders to release you. So come out now and go in peace.”

    37But Paul said to the police officers,“They had us beaten in public without a proper trial– even though we are Roman citizens– and they threw us in prison. And now they want to send us away secretly? Absolutely not! They themselves must come and escort us out!”

    38The police officers reported these words to the magistrates. They were frightened when they heard Paul and Silas were Roman citizens

  • Acts 16:22-23
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    22The crowd joined the attack against them, and the magistrates tore the clothes off Paul and Silas and ordered them to be beaten with rods.

    23After they had beaten them severely, they threw them into prison and commanded the jailer to guard them securely.

  • Acts 28:16-18
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    16When we entered Rome, Paul was allowed to live by himself, with the soldier who was guarding him.

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    18When they had heard my case, they wanted to release me, because there was no basis for a death sentence against me.

  • Acts 23:17-19
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    17Paul called one of the centurions and said,“Take this young man to the commanding officer, for he has something to report to him.”

    18So the centurion took him and brought him to the commanding officer and said,“The prisoner Paul called me and asked me to bring this young man to you because he has something to tell you.”

    19The commanding officer took him by the hand, withdrew privately, and asked,“What is it that you want to report to me?”

  • Acts 26:30
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    30So the king got up, and with him the governor and Bernice and those sitting with them,

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  • Acts 26:21
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    21For this reason the Jews, after they seized me while I was in the temple courts, were trying to kill me.

  • Acts 23:23
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    23Then he summoned two of the centurions and said,“Make ready two hundred soldiers to go to Caesarea along with seventy horsemen and two hundred spearmen by nine o’clock tonight,

  • Acts 27:43
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    43But the centurion, wanting to save Paul’s life, prevented them from carrying out their plan. He ordered those who could swim to jump overboard first and get to land,

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    19But when her owners saw their hope of profit was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace before the authorities.

  • Acts 18:17
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  • Acts 18:12
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  • Acts 5:26
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    26Then the commander of the temple guard went with the officers and brought the apostles without the use of force(for they were afraid of being stoned by the people).

  • Acts 22:19
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    19I replied,‘Lord, they themselves know that I imprisoned and beat those in the various synagogues who believed in you.

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