And as they were seeking to kill him, word came to the tribune of the cohort that all Jerusalem was in confusion.
Are they servants of Christ? I am a better one—I am talking like a madman—with far greater labors, far more imprisonments, with countless beatings, and often near death. Five times I received at the hands of the Jews the forty lashes less one. Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I was shipwrecked; a night and a day I was adrift at sea; on frequent journeys, in danger from rivers, danger from robbers, danger from my own people, danger from Gentiles, danger in the city, danger in the wilderness, danger at sea, danger from false brothers; in toil and hardship, through many a sleepless night, in hunger and thirst, often without food, in cold and exposure.
“I myself was convinced that I ought to do many things in opposing the name of Jesus of Nazareth. And I did so in Jerusalem. I not only locked up many of the saints in prison after receiving authority from the chief priests, but when they were put to death I cast my vote against them.
But the Jews were jealous, and taking some wicked men of the rabble, they formed a mob, set the city in an uproar, and attacked the house of Jason, seeking to bring them out to the crowd.
So on the next day Agrippa and Bernice came with great pomp, and they entered the audience hall with the military tribunes and the prominent men of the city. Then, at the command of Festus, Paul was brought in.
But Felix, having a rather accurate knowledge of the Way, put them off, saying, “When Lysias the tribune comes down, I will decide your case.”
He even tried to profane the temple, but we seized him.
Paul called one of the centurions and said, “Take this young man to the tribune, for he has something to tell him.”
Up to this word they listened to him. Then they raised their voices and said, “Away with such a fellow from the earth! For he should not be allowed to live.”
Are you not the Egyptian, then, who recently stirred up a revolt and led the four thousand men of the Assassins out into the wilderness?”
For we really are in danger of being charged with rioting today, since there is no cause that we can give to justify this commotion.”
At Caesarea there was a man named Cornelius, a centurion of what was known as the Italian Cohort,
So the band of soldiers and their captain and the officers of the Jews arrested Jesus and bound him.
They will put you out of the synagogues. Indeed, the hour is coming when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God.
for they said, “Not during the feast, lest there be an uproar from the people.”
But they said, “Not during the feast, lest there be an uproar among the people.”
Adonijah and all the guests who were with him heard it as they finished feasting. And when Joab heard the sound of the trumpet, he said, “What does this uproar in the city mean?”
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