⁵⁷ But they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and rushed at him with one accord.

⁴ Their poison is like the poison of a snake; Like a deaf cobra that stops its ear,

¹³ Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, He will also cry out, but shall not be heard.

¹¹ But they refused to listen, and turned their backs, and stopped their ears, that they might not hear.

⁵⁴ Now when they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed at him with their teeth.

²⁷ When the seven days were almost completed, the Jews from Asia, when they saw him in the temple, stirred up all the multitude and laid hands on him,

²⁸ crying out, "Men of Israel, help! This is the man who teaches all men everywhere against the people, and the law, and this place. Moreover, he also brought Greeks into the temple, and has defiled this holy place!"

²⁹ For they had seen Trophimus, the Ephesian, with him in the city, and they supposed that Paul had brought him into the temple.

³⁰ All the city was moved, and the people ran together. They seized Paul and dragged him out of the temple. Immediately the doors were shut.

³¹ As they were trying to kill him, news came up to the commanding officer of the regiment that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.

²⁷ "This man was seized by the Jews, and was about to be killed by them, when I came with the soldiers and rescued him, having learned that he was a Roman.