When he came to the stairs, he was carried by the soldiers because of the violence of the crowd;
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Acts 21:35 in context
Acts 21:32–38
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Immediately he took soldiers and centurions and ran down to them. They, when they saw the chief captain and the soldiers, stopped beating Paul.
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Then the commanding officer came near, arrested him, commanded him to be bound with two chains, and inquired who he was and what he had done.
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Some shouted one thing and some another, among the crowd. When he couldn’t find out the truth because of the noise, he commanded him to be brought into the barracks.
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When he came to the stairs, he was carried by the soldiers because of the violence of the crowd;
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for the multitude of the people followed after, crying out, “Away with him!”
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As Paul was about to be brought into the barracks, he asked the commanding officer, “May I speak to you?”
He said, “Do you know Greek?
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Aren’t you then the Egyptian who before these days stirred up to sedition and led out into the wilderness the four thousand men of the Assassins?”
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