Acts 24:7
“But the chief captain Lysias came upon us, and with great violence took him away out of our hands,”
For we have found this man a pestilent fellow, and a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes:
Who also hath gone about to profane the temple: whom we took, and would have judged according to our law.
But the chief captain Lysias came upon us, and with great violence took him away out of our hands,
Commanding his accusers to come unto thee: by examining of whom thyself mayest take knowledge of all these things, whereof we accuse him.
And the Jews also assented, saying that these things were so.
Related Verses
“And when there arose a great dissension, the chief captain, fearing lest Paul should have been pulled in pieces of them, commanded the soldiers to go down, and to take him by force from among them, and to bring him into the castle.”
“And when the seven days were almost ended, the Jews which were of Asia, when they saw him in the temple, stirred up all the people, and laid hands on him,”
“And as they went about to kill him, tidings came unto the chief captain of the band, that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.”
“And when he came upon the stairs, so it was, that he was borne of the soldiers for the violence of the people.”
“Then the chief captain came near, and took him, and commanded him to be bound with two chains; and demanded who he was, and what he had done.”