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Acts 21:32 Explained in Context
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Verse 32. 32Who immediately took soldiers and centurions, and ran down unto them: and when they saw the chief captain and the soldiers, they left beating of Paul.
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Role in This Section
Sends soldiers and centurions whose arrival stops the beating.
Read It With
- Acts 21:27–21:36
Read Acts 21:32 with 21:27–21:36. In isolation, this contribution—sends soldiers and centurions whose arrival stops the beating—can be mistaken for the scene's whole claim, detached from its speaker or narrator, or separated from its outcome. The complete unit establishes: Jews from Asia accuse Paul of opposing people, law, and temple and falsely assume he brought Trophimus inside; the city erupts, soldiers interrupt the beating, and a commander arrests Paul amid contradictory shouting.
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Read Acts 21:27–21:36 — A false temple accusation sparks mob violence and Roman custodySources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and unit coverage.
Exact location: Acts 21:27–21:36, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗Greek textual evidence
The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition
Michael W. Holmes, editor; Society of Biblical Literature and Logos
Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software, 2010
Supports: Greek wording and punctuation control, without pretending one edition is a complete apparatus.
Exact location: SBLGNT official text, Acts 21:27-21:36
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