He even tried to desecrate the temple, so we arrested him.

For this reason the Jews seized me in the temple courts and were trying to kill me.

And a man lame from birth was being carried up, who was placed at the temple gate called “the Beautiful Gate” every day so he could beg for money from those going into the temple courts.

Now Peter and John were going up to the temple at the time for prayer, at three o’clock in the afternoon.

When he saw Peter and John about to go into the temple courts, he asked them for money.

“Go and stand in the temple courts and proclaim to the people all the words of this life.”

And every day both in the temple courts and from house to house, they did not stop teaching and proclaiming the good news that Jesus was the Christ.

When I returned to Jerusalem and was praying in the temple, I fell into a trance

Every day they continued to gather together by common consent in the temple courts, breaking bread from house to house, sharing their food with glad and humble hearts,

He jumped up, stood and began walking around, and he entered the temple courts with them, walking and leaping and praising God.

While Peter and John were speaking to the people, the priests and the commander of the temple guard and the Sadducees came up to them,

Now when the commander of the temple guard and the chief priests heard this report, they were greatly puzzled concerning it, wondering what this could be.

(For they had seen Trophimus the Ephesian in the city with him previously, and they assumed Paul had brought him into the inner temple courts.)

They did not find me arguing with anyone or stirring up a crowd in the temple courts or in the synagogues or throughout the city,

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

Paul said in his defense, “I have committed no offense against the Jewish law or against the temple or against Caesar.”

and they recognized him as the man who used to sit and ask for donations at the Beautiful Gate of the temple, and they were filled with astonishment and amazement at what had happened to him.

But someone came and reported to them, “Look! The men you put in prison are standing in the temple courts and teaching the people!”

When the seven days were almost over, the Jews from the province of Asia who had seen him in the temple area stirred up the whole crowd and seized him,

The whole city was stirred up, and the people rushed together. They seized Paul and dragged him out of the temple courts, and immediately the doors were shut.