But they said, “Not during the feast, so that there won’t be a riot among the people.”

For they said, “Not during the feast, so there won’t be a riot among the people.”

They came to the house of the synagogue ruler where he saw noisy confusion and people weeping and wailing loudly.

After the disturbance had ended, Paul sent for the disciples, and after encouraging them and saying farewell, he left to go to Macedonia.

which I was doing when they found me in the temple, ritually purified, without a crowd or a disturbance.

When Pilate saw that he could do nothing, but that instead a riot was starting, he took some water, washed his hands before the crowd and said, “I am innocent of this man’s blood. You take care of it yourselves!”

But some in the crowd shouted one thing, and others something else, and when the commanding officer was unable to find out the truth because of the disturbance, he ordered Paul to be brought into the barracks.