Acts 21:31-33

Expanded Bible

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. ³³ The ·commander [tribune] went to Paul and arrested him. He told his soldiers to ·bind [shackle] Paul with two chains. Then he ·asked [inquired about] who he was and what he had done wrong.