Acts 24:6 Cross References

Acts 24:6

6: Moreover he was trying to defile the Temple when we arrested him.

I didn't argue with anyone in the Temple, nor did I incite a riot in any synagogue or on the streets of the city.

You have brought these men here, but they have stolen nothing from the temple and have not spoken against our goddess.

The Jewish leaders replied, "By our laws he ought to die because he called himself the Son of God."
When Pilate heard this, he was more frightened than ever.

"Then take him away and judge him by your own laws," Pilate told them. "Only the Romans are permitted to execute someone," the Jewish leaders replied.

The seven days were almost ended when some Jews from the province of Asia saw Paul in the Temple and roused a mob against him. They grabbed him,
yelling, "Men of Israel! Help! This is the man who teaches against our people and tells everybody to disobey the Jewish laws. He speaks against the Temple--and he even defiles it by bringing Gentiles in!"
(For earlier that day they had seen him in the city with Trophimus, a Gentile from Ephesus, and they assumed Paul had taken him into the Temple.)
The whole population of the city was rocked by these accusations, and a great riot followed. Paul was dragged out of the Temple, and immediately the gates were closed behind him.
As they were trying to kill him, word reached the commander of the Roman regiment that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.

The shouting grew louder and louder, and the men were tugging at Paul from both sides, pulling him this way and that. Finally, the commander, fearing they would tear him apart, ordered his soldiers to take him away from them and bring him back to the fortress.
That night the Lord appeared to Paul and said, "Be encouraged, Paul. Just as you have told the people about me here in Jerusalem, you must preach the Good News in Rome."
The next morning a group of Jews got together and bound themselves with an oath to neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.
There were more than forty of them.
They went to the leading priests and other leaders and told them what they had done. "We have bound ourselves under oath to neither eat nor drink until we have killed Paul.

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