Acts 21
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Acts 21:31-35

31While they were intent on killing him, a report came up to the commander of the 1Roman 2cohort that all Jerusalem was in confusion.

32He immediately 3took along some soldiers and centurions and ran down to 4the crowd; and when they saw the commander and the soldiers, they stopped beating Paul.

33Then the commander came up and took hold of him, and ordered that he be 5bound with 6two chains; and he began asking who he was and what he had done.

34But among the crowd, 7some were shouting one thing and some another, and when he could not find out the 8facts because of the uproar, he ordered that 9Paul be brought into 10the barracks.

35When Paul got to 11the stairs, it came about that he was carried by the soldiers because of the violence of the 12mob;

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Notes

  1. 1. Acts 21:31 Acts 10:1 ↩
  2. 2. Acts 21:31 Normally 600 men (the number varied) ↩
  3. 3. Acts 21:32 Acts 23:27 ↩
  4. 4. Acts 21:32 Lit them ↩
  5. 5. Acts 21:33 Acts 20:23; 21:11; 22:29; 26:29; 28:20; Eph 6:20; 2 Tim 1:16; 2:9 ↩
  6. 6. Acts 21:33 Acts 12:6 ↩
  7. 7. Acts 21:34 Acts 19:32 ↩
  8. 8. Acts 21:34 Lit certainty ↩
  9. 9. Acts 21:34 Lit he ↩
  10. 10. Acts 21:34 Acts 21:37; 22:24; 23:10, 16, 32 ↩
  11. 11. Acts 21:35 Acts 21:40 ↩
  12. 12. Acts 21:35 Lit crowd ↩

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