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Acts 21:36

For the crowd that followed him kept shouting, "Away with him!"

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Claudius Lysius;   Minister, Christian;   Paul;   Prisoners;   Thompson Chain Reference - Church;   Fanaticism;   Jews;   Paul;   Persecution;   Suffering for Righteousness' S;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Antonia;   Lysias;   Temple;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Anger;   Jerusalem;   Paul;   Persecution;   Rome;   Temple;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Ordination;   Syrian Christians;   Worship of God;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Claudius;   John;   Lysias, Claudius;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Lysias Claudius;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Persecution in the Bible;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Cry;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Army;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Claudius;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Anto'nia;   Paul;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Saul of Tarsus;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Antonia;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
for the mass of people followed, yelling, “Get rid of him!”
King James Version (1611)
For the multitude of the people followed after, crying, Away with him.
King James Version
For the multitude of the people followed after, crying, Away with him.
English Standard Version
for the mob of the people followed, crying out, "Away with him!"
New American Standard Bible
for the multitude of people kept following them, shouting, "Away with him!"
New Century Version
The whole mob was following them, shouting, "Kill him!"
Amplified Bible
for the majority of the people kept following them, shouting, "Away with him! [Kill him!]"
New American Standard Bible (1995)
for the multitude of the people kept following them, shouting, "Away with him!"
Legacy Standard Bible
for the multitude of the people kept following them, shouting, "Away with him!"
Contemporary English Version
The crowd followed and kept shouting, "Kill him! Kill him!"
Complete Jewish Bible
the crowd kept following and screaming, "Kill him!"
Darby Translation
For the multitude of the people followed, crying, Away with him.
Geneva Bible (1587)
For the multitude of the people followed after, crying, Away with him.
George Lamsa Translation
For a great many people followed after, crying, and saying, Away with him.
Good News Translation
They were all coming after him and screaming, "Kill him!"
Lexham English Bible
for the crowd of people was following them, shouting, "Away with him!"
Literal Translation
For the multitude of the people followed, crying out, Take him away!
American Standard Version
for the multitude of the people followed after, crying out, Away with him.
Bible in Basic English
For a great mass of people came after them, crying out, Away with him!
Hebrew Names Version
for the multitude of the people followed after, crying out, "Away with him!"
International Standard Version
The crowd of people kept following him and shouting, "Kill him!"Luke 23:18; John 19:15; Acts 22:22;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
for after him was much people; and they cried, and said, Away with him !
Murdock Translation
For a great many people followed after him, and cried out, saying: Away with him.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
For the multitude of the people folowed after, crying, away with hym.
English Revised Version
for the multitude of the people followed after, crying out, Away with him.
World English Bible
for the multitude of the people followed after, crying out, "Away with him!"
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
For the multitude of people followed after, crying, Away with him.
Weymouth's New Testament
for the whole mass of the people pressed on in the rear, shouting, "Away with him!"
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For the multitude of the puple suede hym, and criede, Take hym awei.
Update Bible Version
for the multitude of the people followed after, crying out, "Away with him."
Webster's Bible Translation
For the multitude of the people followed, crying, Away with him.
New English Translation
for a crowd of people followed them, screaming, "Away with him!"
New King James Version
For the multitude of the people followed after, crying out, "Away with him!"
New Living Translation
And the crowd followed behind, shouting, "Kill him, kill him!"
New Life Bible
All the people kept pushing and calling out, "Kill him!"
New Revised Standard
The crowd that followed kept shouting, "Away with him!"
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
for the throng of the people was following, crying out - Away with him!
Douay-Rheims Bible
For the multitude of the people followed after, crying: Away with him!
Revised Standard Version
for the mob of the people followed, crying, "Away with him!"
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
For the multitude of the people folowed after cryinge: awaye wt him.
Young's Literal Translation
for the crowd of the people was following after, crying, `Away with him.'
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For the multitude off the people folowed after, and cryed: Awaye with him.
Mace New Testament (1729)
roaring out, "away with him."
Simplified Cowboy Version
The crowd followed in a bloodlust shouting, "String him up! String him up!"

Contextual Overview

27When the seven days were almost over, some Jews from the province of Asia saw Paul at the temple. They stirred up the whole crowd and seized him, 28crying out, "Men of Israel, help us! This is the man who teaches all men everywhere against our people and against our law and against this place. Furthermore, he has brought Greeks into the temple and defiled this holy place." 29For they had previously seen Trophimus the Ephesian with him in the city, and they assumed that Paul had brought him into the temple. 30The whole city was stirred up, and the people rushed together. They seized Paul and dragged him out of the temple, and at once the gates were shut. 31While they were trying to kill him, the commander of the Roman regiment received a report that all Jerusalem was in turmoil. 32Immediately he took some soldiers and centurions and ran down to the crowd. When the people saw the commander and the soldiers, they stopped beating Paul. 33The commander came up and arrested Paul, ordering that he be bound with two chains. Then he asked who he was and what he had done. 34Some in the crowd were shouting one thing, and some another. And since the commander could not confirm the facts because of the uproar, he ordered that Paul be brought into the barracks. 35When Paul reached the steps, he had to be carried by the soldiers because of the violence of the mob. 36For the crowd that followed him kept shouting, "Away with him!"

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Acts 7:54, Acts 22:22, Luke 23:18, John 19:15, 1 Corinthians 4:13

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For the multitude of the people followed after,.... The captain and the soldiers, who had taken away Paul from them, and were carrying him to the castle:

crying, away with him; or "take him away", that is, by death; or "lift him up", upon the cross, crucify him, crucify him, as they said concerning Christ.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Away with him! - That is, to death. Compare Luke 23:18.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 36. Away with him. — That is, Kill him; despatch him! for so much this phrase always means in the mouth of a Jewish mob. Luke 23:18; Luke 23:18, and John 19:15; John 19:15.


 
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