Acts 21:35 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³⁵ When Paul came to the steps, the violence of the mob was so great that he had to be carried by the soldiers.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁵ And when he came upon the stairs, so it was, that he was borne of the soldiers for the violence of the people.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁵ And when [Paul] came to mount the steps, he was actually being carried by the soldiers because of the violence of the mob;

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁵ And when he came upon the stairs, so it was that he was borne of the soldiers for the violence of the crowd;

Common English Bible

³⁵ When Paul reached the steps, he had to be carried by the soldiers in order to protect him from the violence of the crowd.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁵ And when he had arrived at the stairs, it happened that he was carried up by the soldiers, because of the threat of violence from the people.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³⁵ And when he was come to the stairs, it fell out that he was carried by the soldiers, because of the violence of the people.

Acts 21:35 Cross References

Psalm 55:9

Confuse, O Lord, confound their speech, for I see violence and strife in the city.

Psalm 58:2

No, in your hearts you devise wrongs; your hands deal out violence on earth.

Jeremiah 23:10

For the land is full of adulterers; because of the curse the land mourns, and the pastures of the wilderness are dried up. Their course has been evil, and their might is not right.

Luke 13:7

So he said to the man working the vineyard, ‘See here! For three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and still I find none. Cut it down! Why should it be wasting the soil?’

Acts 21:40

When he had given him permission, Paul stood on the steps and motioned to the people for silence, and when there was a great hush, he addressed them in the Hebrew language, saying: