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Acts 21:31

Weymouth NT

But while they were trying to kill Paul, word was taken up to the Tribune in command of the battalion, that all Jerusalem was in a ferment.

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But they said, »Not during the Festival, lest there be a riot among the people.«

Then the Governor's soldiers took Jesus into the Praetorium, and called together the whole battalion to make sport of Him.

But they said, »Not on the Festival-day, for fear there should be a riot among the people.«

You will be excluded from the synagogues; nay more, the time is coming when any one who has murdered one of you will suppose he is offering service to God.

So the battalion and their tribune and the Jewish police closed in, and took Jesus and bound Him.

Now a Captain of the Italian Regiment, named Cornelius, was quartered at Caesarea.

But the jealousy of the Jews was aroused, and, calling to their aid some ill-conditioned and idle fellows, they got together a riotous mob and filled the city with uproar. They then attacked the house of Jason and searched for Paul and Silas, to bring them out before the assembly of people.

For in connexion with to-day's proceedings there is danger of our being charged with attempted insurrection, there having been no real reason for this riot; nor shall we be able to justify the behaviour of this disorderly mob.«

»Are you not the Egyptian who some years ago excited the riot of the 4,000 cut-throats, and led them out into the Desert?«

Until they heard this last statement the people listened to Paul, but now with a roar of disapproval they cried out, »Away with such a fellow from the earth! He ought not to be allowed to live.«

and Paul called one of the Captains and said, »Take this young man to the Tribune, for he has information to give him.«

At this point Felix, who was fairly well informed about the new faith, adjourned the trial, saying to the Jews, »When the Tribune Lysias comes down, I will enter carefully into the matter.«

He even attempted to profane the Temple, but we arrested him.

and took their seats in the Judgement Hall, attended by the Tribunes and the men of high rank in the city; and, at the command of Festus, Paul was brought in.

»It was on this account that the Jews seized me in the Temple and tried to kill me.«




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