But they cried out with a loud voice and stopped their ears and rushed together at him.
But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder and stopped their ears that they might not hear.
This man was seized by the Jews and was about to be killed by them when I came upon them with the soldiers and rescued him, having learned that he was a Roman citizen.
They have venom like the venom of a serpent, like the deaf adder that stops its ear,
When the seven days were almost completed, the Jews from Asia, seeing him in the temple, stirred up the whole crowd and laid hands on him, crying out, “Men of Israel, help! This is the man who is teaching everyone everywhere against the people and the law and this place. Moreover, he even brought Greeks into the temple and has defiled this holy place.” For they had previously seen Trophimus the Ephesian with him in the city, and they supposed that Paul had brought him into the temple. Then all the city was stirred up, and the people ran together. They seized Paul and dragged him out of the temple, and at once the gates were shut. And as they were seeking to kill him, word came to the tribune of the cohort that all Jerusalem was in confusion.
Now when they heard these things they were enraged, and they ground their teeth at him.
Whoever closes his ear to the cry of the poor will himself call out and not be answered.
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