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Acts 21:30-32

The whole city was aroused, and the people came running from all directions. Seizing Paul, they dragged him from the temple, and immediately the gates were shut. While they were trying to kill him, news reached the commander of the Roman troops that the whole city of Jerusalem was in an uproar. He at once took some officers and soldiers and ran down to the crowd. When the rioters saw the commander and his soldiers, they stopped beating Paul. (NIVUK)

Paul had come to Jerusalem, to join with a multi-national throng of displaced Israelites (Acts 2:5-11) to celebrate the feast of Pentecost (Acts 20:16); and to announce Jesus as the Messiah, even though he knew he would encounter hardship for the sake of Jesus, and imprisonment (Acts 20:22-24). Although the leaders of the church there tried to reflect traditional religious criticism away from Paul and his team (Acts 21:21-24), his opponents were undeterred. The main protagonists appear to have been men from Ephesus, who had seen Paul there (Acts 21:29) and had probably contributed to a pu