Acts 21:27-36

Revised Geneva Translation

²⁷ And when the seven days had almost ended, the Asian Jews (when they saw him in the Temple) incited all the people, and laid hands on him,

²⁸ crying, “Men of Israel! Help! This is the man who teaches against the people, and the Law, and this place - to everyone, everywhere! Moreover, he has brought Greeks into the Temple, and has polluted this holy place!”

²⁹ For they had seen Trophimus (an Ephesian) with him in the city before, whom they assumed that Paul had brought into the Temple.

³⁰ Then all the city was moved, and the people ran together. And they took Paul, and dragged him out of the Temple, and immediately the doors were shut.

³¹ But as they were seeking to kill him, word came to the chief captain of the band that all Jerusalem was in an uproar;

³² who immediately took soldiers and Centurions and ran down to them. And when they saw the chief captain and the soldiers, they stopped beating of Paul.

³³ Then the chief captain came near and took him, and commanded that he be bound with two chains, and asked who he was and what he had done.

³⁴ And one cried this, and another that, among the people. So, when he could not discern the veracity because of the uproar, he commanded him to be led into the castle.

³⁵ And when he came to the stairs, it happened that he was carried by the soldiers because of the violence of the people.

³⁶ For the multitude of the people followed them, crying, “Away with him!”