Acts 21:31

American Standard Version (1901)

And as they were seeking to kill him, tidings came up to the chief captain of the band, that all Jerusalem was in confusion.

Additional Resources

Referenced Verses

  • 1 Kgs 1:41 : 41 And Adonijah and all the guests that were with him heard it as they had made an end of eating. And when Joab heard the sound of the trumpet, he said, Wherefore is this noise of the city being in an uproar?
  • Matt 26:5 : 5 But they said, Not during the feast, lest a tumult arise among people.
  • Mark 14:2 : 2 for they said, Not during the feast, lest haply there shall be a tumult of the people.
  • John 16:2 : 2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the hour cometh, that whosoever killeth you shall think that he offereth service unto God.
  • John 18:12 : 12 So the band and the chief captain, and the officers of the Jews, seized Jesus and bound him,
  • Acts 10:1 : 1 Now [there was] a certain man in Caesarea, Cornelius by name, a centurion of the band called the Italian [band] ,
  • Acts 17:5 : 5 But the Jews, being moved with jealousy, took unto them certain vile fellows of the rabble, and gathering a crowd, set the city on an uproar; and assaulting the house of Jason, they sought to bring them forth to the people.
  • Acts 19:40 : 40 For indeed we are in danger to be accused concerning this day's riot, there being no cause [for it] : and as touching it we shall not be able to give account of this concourse.
  • Acts 21:38 : 38 Art thou not then the Egyptian, who before these days stirred up to sedition and led out into the wilderness the four thousand men of the Assassins?
  • Acts 22:22 : 22 And they gave him audience unto this word; and they lifted up their voice, and said, Away with such a fellow from the earth: for it is not fit that he should live.
  • Acts 23:17 : 17 And Paul called unto him one of the centurions, and said, Bring this young man unto the chief captain; for he hath something to tell him.
  • Acts 24:6 : 6 who moreover assayed to profane the temple: on whom also we laid hold:
  • Acts 24:22 : 22 But Felix, having more exact knowledge concerning the Way, deferred them, saying, When Lysias the chief captain shall come down, I will determine your matter.
  • Acts 25:23 : 23 So on the morrow, when Agrippa was come, and Bernice, with great pomp, and they were entered into the place of hearing with the chief captains and principal men of the city, at the command of Festus Paul was brought in.
  • Acts 26:9-9 : 9 I verily thought with myself that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth. 10 And this I also did in Jerusalem: and I both shut up many of the saints in prisons, having received authority from the chief priests, and when they were put to death I gave my vote against them.
  • 2 Cor 11:23-33 : 23 Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) I more; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths oft. 24 Of the Jews five times received I forty [stripes] save one. 25 Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day have I been in the deep; 26 [ in] journeyings often, [in] perils of rivers, [in] perils of robbers, [in] perils from [my] countrymen, [in] perils from the Gentiles, [in] perils in the city, [in] perils in the wilderness, [in] perils in the sea, [in] perils among false brethren; 27 [ in] labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. 28 Besides those things that are without, there is that which presseth upon me daily, anxiety for all the churches. 29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is caused to stumble, and I burn not? 30 If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things that concern my weakness. 31 The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, he who is blessed for evermore knoweth that I lie not. 32 In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king guarded the city of the Damascenes in order to take me: 33 and through a window was I let down in a basket by the wall, and escaped his hands.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Acts 21:32-36
    5 verses
    84%

    32And forthwith he took soldiers and centurions, and ran down upon them: and they, when they saw the chief captain and the soldiers, left off beating Paul.

    33Then the chief captain came near, and laid hold on him, and commanded him to be bound with two chains; and inquired who he was, and what he had done.

    34And some shouted one thing, some another, among the crowd: and when he could not know the certainty for the uproar, he commanded him to be brought into the castle.

    35And when he came upon the stairs, so it was that he was borne of the soldiers for the violence of the crowd;

    36for the multitude of the people followed after, crying out, Away with him.

  • Acts 21:27-30
    4 verses
    83%

    27And when the seven days were almost completed, the Jews from Asia, when they saw him in the temple, stirred up all the multitude and laid hands on him,

    28crying out, Men of Israel, help: This is the man that teacheth all men everywhere against the people, and the law, and this place; and moreover he brought Greeks also into the temple, and hath defiled this holy place.

    29For they had before seen with him in the city Trophimus the Ephesian, whom they supposed that Paul had brought into the temple.

    30And all the city was moved, and the people ran together; and they laid hold on Paul, and dragged him out of the temple: and straightway the doors were shut.

  • Acts 23:9-11
    3 verses
    80%

    9And there arose a great clamor: and some of the scribes of the Pharisees part stood up, and strove, saying, We find no evil in this man: and what if a spirit hath spoken to him, or an angel?

    10And when there arose a great dissension, the chief captain, fearing lest Paul should be torn in pieces by them, commanded the soldiers to go down and take him by force from among them, and bring him into the castle.

    11And the night following the Lord stood by him, and said, Be of good cheer: for as thou hast testified concerning me at Jerusalem, so must thou bear witness also at Rome.

  • Acts 26:21
    76%

    21For this cause the Jews seized me in the temple, and assayed to kill me.

  • Acts 24:7
    76%

    7(Ommitted)

  • Acts 23:30-31
    2 verses
    75%

    30And when it was shown to me that there would be a plot against the man, I sent him to thee forthwith, charging his accusers also to speak against him before thee.

    31So the soldiers, as it was commanded them, took Paul and brought him by night to Antipatris.

  • Acts 23:15-16
    2 verses
    74%

    15Now therefore do ye with the council signify to the chief captain that he bring him down unto you, as though ye would judge of his case more exactly: and we, before he comes near, are ready to slay him.

    16But Paul's sister's son heard of their lying in wait, and he came and entered into the castle and told Paul.

  • Acts 22:23-26
    4 verses
    74%

    23And as they cried out, and threw off their garments, and cast dust into the air,

    24the chief captain commanded him be brought into the castle, bidding that he should be examined by scourging, that he might know for what cause they so shouted against him.

    25And when they had tied him up with the thongs, Paul said unto the centurion that stood by, Is it lawful for you to scourge a man that is a Roman, and uncondemned?

    26And when the centurion heard it, he went to the chief captain and told him, saying, What art thou about to do? for this man is a Roman.

  • Acts 23:27
    73%

    27This man was seized by the Jews, and was about to be slain of them, when I came upon them with the soldiers and rescued him, having learned that he was a Roman.

  • Acts 17:8
    73%

    8And they troubled the multitude and the rulers of the city, when they heard these things.

  • Acts 25:15
    73%

    15about whom, when I was at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews informed [me], asking for sentence against him.

  • Acts 28:16-17
    2 verses
    73%

    16And when we entered into Rome, Paul was suffered to abide by himself with the soldier that guarded him.

    17And it came to pass, that after three days he called together those that were the chief of the Jews: and when they were come together, he said unto them, I, brethren, though I had done nothing against the people, or the customs of our fathers, yet was delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans:

  • Acts 9:21
    73%

    21And all that heard him were amazed, and said, Is not this he that in Jerusalem made havoc of them that called on this name? and he had come hither for this intent, that he might bring them bound before the chief priests.

  • Acts 16:38
    73%

    38And the serjeants reported these words unto the magistrates: and they feared when they heard that they were Romans;

  • Acts 19:29
    72%

    29And the city was filled with the confusion: and they rushed with one accord into the theatre, having seized Gaius and Aristarchus, men of Macedonia, Paul's companions in travel.

  • Acts 25:2
    72%

    2And the chief priests and the principal men of the Jews informed him against Paul; and they besought him,

  • Acts 22:29-30
    2 verses
    72%

    29They then that were about to examine him straightway departed from him: and the chief captain also was afraid when he knew that he was a Roman, and because he had bound him.

    30But on the morrow, desiring to know the certainty wherefore he was accused of the Jews, he loosed him, and commanded the chief priests and all the council to come together, and brought Paul down and set him before them.

  • Acts 21:12-13
    2 verses
    72%

    12And when we heard these things, both we and they of that place besought him not to go up to Jerusalem.

    13Then Paul answered, What do ye, weeping and breaking my heart? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.

  • Acts 23:18-21
    4 verses
    72%

    18So he took him, and brought him to the chief captain, and saith, Paul the prisoner called me unto him, and asked me to bring this young man unto thee, who hath something to say to thee.

    19And the chief captain took him by the hand, and going aside asked him privately, What is it that thou hast to tell me?

    20And he said, The Jews have agreed to ask thee to bring down Paul to-morrow unto the council, as though thou wouldest inquire somewhat more exactly concerning him.

    21Do not thou therefore yield unto them: for there lie in wait for him of them more than forty men, who have bound themselves under a curse, neither to eat nor to drink till they have slain him: and now are they ready, looking for the promise from thee.

  • Acts 18:12
    71%

    12But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews with one accord rose up against Paul and brought him before the judgment-seat,

  • Acts 19:40
    71%

    40For indeed we are in danger to be accused concerning this day's riot, there being no cause [for it] : and as touching it we shall not be able to give account of this concourse.

  • Acts 19:32
    71%

    32Some therefore cried one thing, and some another: for the assembly was in confusion; and the more part knew not wherefore they were come together.

  • Acts 26:30
    71%

    30And the king rose up, and the governor, and Bernice, and they that sat with them:

  • Acts 5:26
    71%

    26Then went the captain with the officers, and brought them, [but] without violence; for they feared the people, lest they should be stoned.

  • Acts 21:38
    71%

    38Art thou not then the Egyptian, who before these days stirred up to sedition and led out into the wilderness the four thousand men of the Assassins?

  • Acts 16:20
    70%

    20and when they had brought them unto the magistrates, they said, These men, being Jews, do exceedingly trouble our city,

  • Acts 17:5
    70%

    5But the Jews, being moved with jealousy, took unto them certain vile fellows of the rabble, and gathering a crowd, set the city on an uproar; and assaulting the house of Jason, they sought to bring them forth to the people.

  • Acts 14:19
    70%

    19But there came Jews thither from Antioch and Iconium: and having persuaded the multitudes, they stoned Paul, and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead.

  • Acts 16:22
    70%

    22And the multitude rose up together against them: and the magistrates rent their garments off them, and commanded to beat them with rods.

  • Acts 14:5
    70%

    5And when there was made an onset both of the Gentiles and of the Jews with their rulers, to treat them shamefully and to stone them,