Acts 21:31

Webster's Bible (1833)

As they were trying to kill him, news came up to the commanding officer of the regiment that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.

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  • 1 Kgs 1:41 : 41 Adonijah and all the guests who were with him heard it as they had made an end of eating. When Joab heard the sound of the trumpet, he said, Why is this noise of the city being in an uproar?
  • Matt 26:5 : 5 But they said, "Not during the feast, lest a riot occur among the people."
  • Mark 14:2 : 2 For they said, "Not during the feast, because there might be a riot of the people."
  • John 16:2 : 2 They will put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time comes that whoever kills you will think that he offers service to God.
  • John 18:12 : 12 So the detachment, the commanding officer, and the officers of the Jews, seized Jesus and bound him,
  • Acts 10:1 : 1 Now there was a certain man in Caesarea, Cornelius by name, a centurion of what was called the Italian Regiment,
  • Acts 17:5 : 5 But the unpersuaded Jews took along{TR reads "And the Jews who were unpersuaded, becoming envious and taking along" instead of "But the unpersuaded Jews took along"} some wicked men from the marketplace, and gathering a crowd, set the city in an uproar. Assaulting the house of Jason, they sought to bring them out to the people.
  • Acts 19:40 : 40 For indeed we are in danger of being accused concerning this day's riot, there being no cause. Concerning it, we wouldn't be able to give an account of this commotion."
  • Acts 21:38 : 38 Aren't you then the Egyptian, who before these days stirred up to sedition and led out into the wilderness the four thousand men of the Assassins?"
  • Acts 22:22 : 22 They listened to him until he said that; then they lifted up their voice, and said, "Rid the earth of this fellow, for he isn't fit to live!"
  • Acts 23:17 : 17 Paul summoned one of the centurions, and said, "Bring this young man to the commanding officer, for he has something to tell him."
  • Acts 24:6 : 6 He even tried to profane the temple, and we arrested him.{TR adds "We wanted to judge him according to our law,"}
  • Acts 24:22 : 22 But Felix, having more exact knowledge concerning the Way, deferred them, saying, "When Lysias, the commanding officer, comes down, I will decide your case."
  • Acts 25:23 : 23 So on the next day, when Agrippa and Bernice had come with great pomp, and they had entered into the place of hearing with the commanding officers and principal men of the city, at the command of Festus, Paul was brought in.
  • Acts 26:9-9 : 9 "I myself most assuredly thought that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth. 10 This I also did in Jerusalem. I both shut up many of the saints in prisons, having received authority from the chief priests, and when they were put to death I gave my vote against them.
  • 2 Cor 11:23-33 : 23 Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) I am more so; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths often. 24 Five times from the Jews I received forty stripes minus one. 25 Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I suffered shipwreck. I have been a night and a day in the deep. 26 I have been in travels often, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from my countrymen, perils from the Gentiles, perils in the city, perils in the wilderness, perils in the sea, perils among false brothers; 27 in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness. 28 Besides those things that are outside, there is that which presses on me daily, anxiety for all the assemblies. 29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and I don't burn with indignation? 30 If I must boast, I will boast of the things that concern my weakness. 31 The God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ, he who is blessed forevermore, knows that I don't lie. 32 In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king guarded the city of the Damascenes desiring to arrest me. 33 Through a window I was let down in a basket by the wall, and escaped his hands.

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    32 Immediately he took soldiers and centurions, and ran down to them. They, when they saw the chief captain and the soldiers, stopped beating Paul.

    33 Then the commanding officer came near, arrested him, commanded him to be bound with two chains, and inquired who he was and what he had done.

    34 Some shouted one thing, and some another, among the crowd. When he couldn't find out the truth because of the noise, he commanded him to be brought into the barracks.

    35 When he came to the stairs, it happened that he was carried by the soldiers because of the violence of the crowd;

    36 for the multitude of the people followed after, crying out, "Away with him!"

  • Acts 21:27-30
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    27 When the seven days were almost completed, the Jews from Asia, when they saw him in the temple, stirred up all the multitude and laid hands on him,

    28 crying out, "Men of Israel, help! This is the man who teaches all men everywhere against the people, and the law, and this place. Moreover, he also brought Greeks into the temple, and has defiled this holy place!"

    29 For they had seen Trophimus, the Ephesian, with him in the city, and they supposed that Paul had brought him into the temple.

    30 All the city was moved, and the people ran together. They seized Paul and dragged him out of the temple. Immediately the doors were shut.

  • Acts 23:9-11
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    9 A great clamor arose, and some of the scribes of the Pharisees part stood up, and contended, saying, "We find no evil in this man. But if a spirit or angel has spoken to him, let's not fight against God!"

    10 When a great argument arose, the commanding officer, fearing that Paul would be torn in pieces by them, commanded the soldiers to go down and take him by force from among them, and bring him into the barracks.

    11 The following night, the Lord stood by him, and said, "Cheer up, Paul, for as you have testified about me at Jerusalem, so you must testify also at Rome."

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    21 For this reason the Jews seized me in the temple, and tried to kill me.

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    7 {TR adds "but the commanding officer, Lysias, came by and with great violence took him out of our hands,"}

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    30 When I was told that the Jews lay in wait for the man, I sent him to you immediately, charging his accusers also to bring their accusations against him before you. Farewell."

    31 So the soldiers, carrying out their orders, took Paul and brought him by night to Antipatris.

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    15 Now therefore, you with the council inform the commanding officer that he should bring him down to you tomorrow, as though you were going to judge his case more exactly. We are ready to kill him before he comes near."

    16 But Paul's sister's son heard of their lying in wait, and he came and entered into the barracks and told Paul.

  • Acts 22:23-26
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    23 As they cried out, and threw off their cloaks, and threw dust into the air,

    24 the commanding officer commanded him to be brought into the barracks, ordering him to be examined by scourging, that he might know for what crime they shouted against him like that.

    25 When they had tied him up with thongs, Paul asked the centurion who stood by, "Is it lawful for you to scourge a man who is a Roman, and not found guilty?"

    26 When the centurion heard it, he went to the commanding officer and told him, "Watch what you are about to do, for this man is a Roman!"

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    27 "This man was seized by the Jews, and was about to be killed by them, when I came with the soldiers and rescued him, having learned that he was a Roman.

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    8 The multitude and the rulers of the city were troubled when they heard these things.

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    15 about whom, when I was at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews informed me, asking for a sentence against him.

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    16 When we entered into Rome, the centurion delivered the prisoners to the captain of the guard, but Paul was allowed to stay by himself with the soldier who guarded him.

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    21 All who heard him were amazed, and said, "Isn't this he who in Jerusalem made havoc of those who called on this name? And he had come here intending to bring them bound before the chief priests!"

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    38 The sergeants reported these words to the magistrates, and they were afraid when they heard that they were Romans,

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    29 The whole city was filled with confusion, and they rushed with one accord into the theater, having seized Gaius and Aristarchus, men of Macedonia, Paul's companions in travel.

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    2 Then the high priest and the principal men of the Jews informed him against Paul, and they begged him,

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    29 Immediately those who were about to examine him departed from him, and the commanding officer also was afraid when he realized that he was a Roman, because he had bound him.

    30 But on the next day, desiring to know the truth about why he was accused by the Jews, he freed him from the bonds, and commanded the chief priests and all the council to come together, and brought Paul down and set him before them.

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    12 When we heard these things, both we and they of that place begged him not to go up to Jerusalem.

    13 Then Paul answered, "What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus."

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    18 So he took him, and brought him to the commanding officer, and said, "Paul, the prisoner, summoned me and asked me to bring this young man to you, who has something to tell you."

    19 The commanding officer took him by the hand, and going aside, asked him privately, "What is it that you have to tell me?"

    20 He said, "The Jews have agreed to ask you to bring Paul down to the council tomorrow, as though intending to inquire somewhat more accurately concerning him.

    21 Therefore don't yield to them, for more than forty men lie in wait for him, who have bound themselves under a curse neither to eat nor to drink until they have killed him. Now they are ready, looking for the promise from you."

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    12 But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews with one accord rose up against Paul and brought him before the judgment seat,

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    40 For indeed we are in danger of being accused concerning this day's riot, there being no cause. Concerning it, we wouldn't be able to give an account of this commotion."

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    32 Some therefore cried one thing, and some another, for the assembly was in confusion. Most of them didn't know why they had come together.

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    30 The king rose up with the governor, and Bernice, and those who sat with them.

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    26 Then the captain went with the officers, and brought them without violence, for they were afraid that the people might stone them.

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    38 Aren't you then the Egyptian, who before these days stirred up to sedition and led out into the wilderness the four thousand men of the Assassins?"

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    20 When they had brought them to the magistrates, they said, "These men, being Jews, are agitating our city,

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    5 But the unpersuaded Jews took along{TR reads "And the Jews who were unpersuaded, becoming envious and taking along" instead of "But the unpersuaded Jews took along"} some wicked men from the marketplace, and gathering a crowd, set the city in an uproar. Assaulting the house of Jason, they sought to bring them out to the people.

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    19 But some Jews from Antioch and Iconium came there, and having persuaded the multitudes, they stoned Paul, and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead.

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    22 The multitude rose up together against them, and the magistrates tore their clothes off of them, and commanded them to be beaten with rods.

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    5 When some of both the Gentiles and the Jews, with their rulers, made a violent attempt to mistreat and stone them,

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