Acts 21:31 Cross References - Moffatt

³¹ They were attempting to kill him, when word reached the commander of the garrison that the whole of Jerusalem was in confusion.

⁵ "Only," they said, "it must not be during the festival, in case of a riot among the people."

² "Only," they said, "it must not be during the festival; that would mean a popular riot."

² They will excommunicate you; indeed the time is coming when anyone who kills you will imagine he is performing a service to God.

¹² So the troops and their commander and the Jewish attendants seized Jesus, bound him,

¹ Now in Caesarea there was a man called Cornelius, a captain in the Italian regiment,

⁵ But the Jews were aroused to jealousy; they got hold of some idle rascals to form a mob and set the town in an uproar; they attacked Jason's house in the endeavour to bring them out before the populace,

⁴⁰ Indeed there is a danger of our being charged with riot over to-day's meeting; there is not a single reason we can give for this disorderly gathering."

³⁸ "Then you are not the Egyptian who in days gone by raised the four thousand assassins and led them out into the desert?"

²² Till he said that, they had listened to him. But at that they shouted, "Away with such a creature from the earth! He is not fit to live!"

¹⁷ Paul summoned one of the officers and said, "Take this young man to the commander, for he has some news to give him."

⁶ He actually tried to desecrate the temple, but we got hold of him.

²² As Felix had a pretty accurate knowledge of the Way, he remanded Paul, telling the Jews, "When Lysias the commander comes down, I will decide your case."

²³ So next day Agrippa and Bernice proceeded with great pomp to the hall of audience, accompanied by the military commanders and the prominent civilians of the town. Festus then ordered Paul to be brought in.

⁹ I once believed it my duty indeed actively to oppose the name of Jesus the Nazarene. ¹⁰ I did so in Jerusalem. I shut up many of the saints in prison, armed with authority from the high priests; when they were put to death, I voted against them;

²³ Ministers of Christ? yes perhaps, but not as much as I am (I am mad to talk like this!), with all my labours, with all my lashes, with all my time in prison — a record longer far than theirs. I have been often at the point of death; ²⁴ five times have I got forty lashes (all but one) from the Jews, ²⁵ three times I have been beaten by the Romans, once pelted with stones, three times shipwrecked, adrift at sea for a whole night and day; ²⁶ I have been often on my travels, I have been in danger from rivers and robbers, in danger from Jews and Gentiles, through dangers of town and of desert, through dangers on the sea, through dangers among false brothers — ²⁷ through labour and hardship, through many a sleepless night, through hunger and thirst, starving many a time, cold and ill-clad, and all the rest of it. ²⁸ And then there is the pressing business of each day, the care of all the churches. ²⁹ Who is weak, and I do not feel his weakness? Whose faith is hurt, and I am not aglow with indignation? ³⁰ If there is to be any boasting, I will boast of what I am weak enough to suffer! ³¹ The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, He who is blessed for ever, He knows I am telling the truth! ³² (At Damascus the ethnarch of king Aretas had patrols out in the city of the Damascenes to arrest me, ³³ but I was lowered in a basket from a loophole in the wall, and so managed to escape his clutches.)