Acts 21:35
Good News Translation
They got as far as the steps with him, and then the soldiers had to carry him because the mob was so wild.

New Revised Standard Version
When Paul came to the steps, the violence of the mob was so great that he had to be carried by the soldiers.

Contemporary English Version
As they reached the steps, the crowd became so wild that the soldiers had to lift Paul up and carry him.

New American Bible
When he reached the steps, he was carried by the soldiers because of the violence of the mob,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And when he was come to the stairs, it fell out that he was carried by the soldiers, because of the violence of the people.

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And when he was come to the stairs, it fell out that he was carried by the soldiers, because of the violence of the people.

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Genesis 6:11,12 And the earth was corrupted before God, and was filled with iniquity. . . .

Psalm 55:9 Cast down, O Lord, and divide their tongues; for I have seen iniquity and contradiction in the city.

Psalm 58:2 For in your heart you work iniquity: your hands forge injustice in the earth.

Jeremiah 23:10 Because the land is full of adulterers, because the land hath mourned by reason of cursing, the fields of the desert are dried up: and their course is become evil, and their strength unlike.

Habakkuk 1:2,3 How long, O Lord, shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear? shall I cry out to thee suffering violence, and thou wilt not save? . . .

Context
Paul Seized in the Temple
34And some cried one thing, some another, among the multitude. And when he could not know the certainty for the tumult, he commanded him to be carried into the castle. 35And when he was come to the stairs, it fell out that he was carried by the soldiers, because of the violence of the people. 36For the multitude of the people followed after, crying: Away with him!…
Cross References
Luke 13:7
And he said to the dresser of the vineyard: Behold, for these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree and I find none. Cut it down therefore. Why cumbereth it the ground?

Acts 21:40
And when he had given him leave, Paul standing on the stairs, beckoned with his hand to the people. And a great silence being made, he spoke unto them in the Hebrew tongue, saying:

Acts 21:34
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