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crying out, "Men of Yisra'el, help! This is the man who teaches all men everywhere against the people, and the law, and this place. Moreover, he also brought Yevanim into the temple, and has defiled this holy place!"
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For they had seen Trophimus, the Ephesian, with him in the city, and they supposed that Sha'ul had brought him into the temple.
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All the city was moved, and the people ran together. They seized Sha'ul and dragged him out of the temple. Immediately the doors were shut.
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As they were trying to kill him, news came up to the commanding officer of the regiment that all Yerushalayim was in an uproar.
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Immediately he took soldiers and centurions, and ran down to them. They, when they saw the chief captain and the soldiers, stopped beating Sha'ul.
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Then the commanding officer came near, arrested him, commanded him to be bound with two chains, and inquired who he was and what he had done.
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Some shouted one thing, and some another, among the crowd. When he couldn't find out the truth because of the noise, he commanded him to be brought into the barracks.
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When he came to the stairs, it happened that he was carried by the soldiers because of the violence of the crowd;
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for the multitude of the people followed after, crying out, "Away with him!"
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As Sha'ul was about to be brought into the barracks, he asked the commanding officer, "May I say something to you?" He said, "Do you know Yevanit?
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Aren't you then the Mitzrian, who before these days stirred up to sedition and led out into the wilderness the four thousand men of the Assassins?"