Acts 24:7 Cross References - Common

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³¹ While they were trying to kill him, a report came up to the commander of the Roman cohort that all Jerusalem was in confusion. ³² At once he took along some soldiers and centurions and ran down to them; and when they saw the commander and the soldiers, they stopped beating Paul. ³³ Then the commander came up and arrested him, and ordered him to be bound with two chains. He inquired who he was and what he had done.

³⁵ When he came to the steps, he was actually carried by the soldiers because of the violence of the mob;

¹⁰ The dispute became so violent that the commander was afraid Paul would be torn to pieces by them and ordered the troops to go down and take him away from them by force, and bring him into the barracks.

²³ Then he called two of the centurions and said, "At the third hour of the night get ready two hundred soldiers with seventy horsemen and two hundred spearmen to go as far as Caesarea. ²⁴ Also provide mounts for Paul to ride, and bring him safely to Felix the governor." ²⁵ And he wrote a letter having this form: ²⁶ "Claudius Lysias, to His Excellency, Governor Felix: greetings. ²⁷ This man was seized by the Jews, and was about to be killed by them, when I came upon them with the troops and rescued him, having learned that he was a Roman citizen. ²⁸ And desiring to know the charge for which they were accusing him, I brought him down to their council. ²⁹ I found that he was accused over questions about their Law, but there was no accusation against him deserving death or imprisonment. ³⁰ And when I was informed that there would be a plot against the man, I sent him to you at once, also instructing his accusers to bring charges against him before you." ³¹ So the soldiers, in accordance with their orders, took Paul and brought him by night to Antipatris. ³² But the next day, leaving the horsemen to go on with him, they returned to the barracks.