Acts 19:32

19:32 So then some were shouting one thing, some another, for the assembly was in confusion, and most of them did not know why they had met together. ¹ 

Acts 21:34

21:34 But some in the crowd shouted one thing, and others something else, ²  and when the commanding officer ³  was unable ⁴  to find out the truth ⁵  because of the disturbance, ⁶  he ordered Paul ⁷  to be brought into the barracks. ⁸ 

¹ tn Or “had assembled.”

² tn L&N 33.77 has “ἄλλοι δὲ ἄλλο τι ἐπεφώνουν ἐν τῷ ὄχλῳ ‘some in the crowd shouted one thing; others, something else’ Ac 21:34.”

³ tn Grk “he”; the referent (the commanding officer) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁴ tn This genitive absolute construction has been translated temporally; it could also be taken causally: “and since the commanding officer was unable to find out the truth.”

⁵ tn Or “find out what had happened”; Grk “the certainty” (BDAG 147 s.v. ἀσφαλής 2).

⁶ tn Or “clamor,” “uproar” (BDAG 458 s.v. θόρυβος).

⁷ tn Grk “him”; the referent (Paul) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁸ tn Or “the headquarters.” BDAG 775 s.v. παρεμβολή 2 has “barracks/headquarters of the Roman troops in Jerusalem Ac 21:34, 37; 22:24; 23:10, 16, 32.”