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- When the seven days were nearly over, some Jews from the province of Asia saw Paul at the temple. They stirred up the whole crowd and seized him,
- shouting, "Men of Israel, help us! This is the man who teaches all men everywhere against our people and our law and this place. And besides, he has brought Greeks into the temple area and defiled this holy place."
- (They had previously seen Trophimus the Ephesian in the city with Paul and assumed that Paul had brought him into the temple area.)
- The whole city was aroused, and the people came running from all directions. Seizing Paul, they dragged him from the temple, and immediately the gates were shut.
- While they were trying to kill him, news reached the commander of the Roman troops that the whole city of Jerusalem was in an uproar.
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- And when the seven days were almost ended, the Jews which were of Asia, when they saw him in the temple, stirred up all the people, and laid hands on him,
- Crying out, Men of Israel, help: This is the man, that teacheth all men every where against the people, and the law, and this place: and further brought Greeks also into the temple, and hath polluted this holy place.
- (For they had seen before with him in the city Trophimus an Ephesian, whom they supposed that Paul had brought into the temple.)
- And all the city was moved, and the people ran together: and they took Paul, and drew him out of the temple: and forthwith the doors were shut.
- And as they went about to kill him, tidings came unto the chief captain of the band, that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.
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- He at once took some officers and soldiers and ran down to the crowd. When the rioters saw the commander and his soldiers, they stopped beating Paul.
- The commander came up and arrested him and ordered him to be bound with two chains. Then he asked who he was and what he had done.
- Some in the crowd shouted one thing and some another, and since the commander could not get at the truth because of the uproar, he ordered that Paul be taken into the barracks.
- When Paul reached the steps, the violence of the mob was so great he had to be carried by the soldiers.
- The crowd that followed kept shouting, "Away with him!"
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- Who immediately took soldiers and centurions, and ran down unto them: and when they saw the chief captain and the soldiers, they left beating of Paul.
- Then the chief captain came near, and took him, and commanded him to be bound with two chains; and demanded who he was, and what he had done.
- And some cried one thing, some another, among the multitude: and when he could not know the certainty for the tumult, he commanded him to be carried into the castle.
- And when he came upon the stairs, so it was, that he was borne of the soldiers for the violence of the people.
- For the multitude of the people followed after, crying, Away with him.
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