Acts 21:30-32

Expanded Bible

³⁰ ·All the people in Jerusalem [^LThe whole city] became ·upset [aroused]. Together they ·ran [or rushed together; came running], took Paul, and dragged him out of the Temple. The Temple doors were closed immediately. ³¹ While they were trying to kill ·Paul [^Lhim], the ·commander of the Roman army in Jerusalem [^Ltribune/commander of the regiment; ^Ca tribune (Greek: chiliarch) oversaw about a thousand soldiers] ·learned [received the report] that ·there was trouble in the whole city [^Lall Jerusalem was in confusion/an uproar]. ³² Immediately he took some ·officers and soldiers [^Lsoldiers and centurions; ^Ccenturions oversaw about a hundred soldiers] and ran to the place where the crowd was gathered. When the people saw ·them [^Lthe tribune and the soldiers], they stopped beating Paul.