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Acts 21:31

Twentieth Century New Testament 1904

They were bent upon killing him, when it was reported to the Officer commanding the garrison, that all Jerusalem was in commotion.

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But they said: "Not during the Festival, for fear of causing a riot."

After that, the Governor's soldiers took Jesus with them into the Government House, and gathered the whole garrison round him.

For they said: "Not during the Festival, for fear of a riot."

They will expel you from their Synagogues; indeed the time is coming when any one who kills you will think that he is making an offering to God.

So the soldiers of the garrison, with their Commanding Officer and the Jewish police, arrested Jesus and bound him,

There was then in Caesarea a man named Cornelius, a Captain in the regiment known as the 'Italian Regiment,'

But the Jews, becoming jealous, engaged some worthless fellows from the streets, and, getting a mob together, kept the city in an uproar. They attacked Jason's house, with the intention of bringing Paul and Silas before the Popular Assembly;

For I tell you that we are in danger of being proceeded against for to-day's riot, there being nothing to account for it; and in that case we shall be at a loss to give any reason for this disorderly gathering."

"Are not you, then, the Egyptian who some time ago raised an insurrection and led the four thousand Bandits out into the Wilderness?"

Up to this point the people had been listening to Paul, but at these words they called out: "Kill him! A fellow like this ought not to have been allowed to live!"

Paul called one of the Captains of the garrison and asked him to take the lad to the Commanding Officer, as he had something to tell him.

Felix, however, adjourned the case--though he had a fairly accurate knowledge of all that concerned the Cause--with the promise: "When Lysias, the commanding Officer, comes down, I will give my decision in your case."

He even attempted to desecrate the Temple itself, but we caught him;

So the next day, when Agrippa and Bernice had come in full state and had entered the Audience Chamber, with the superior officers and the principal people of the city, by the order of Festus Paul was brought before them.

This is why the Jews seized me in the Temple, and made attempts upon my life.




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