“As they were trying to kill him, news came up to the commanding officer of the regiment that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Acts 21 contains 40 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.