All the city was shaken (εκινηθη η πολις ολη). First aorist passive of κινεω, common verb for violent motion and emotion. See also…

The city was moved. Was agitated; was thrown into commotion.

Drew him out of the temple. Under the pretense that he had de…

The people ran together.—Better, perhaps, there was a rush of the people. Saint Luke brings into a kind of mental juxtaposition t…

“The whole city,” Luke tells us in natural hyperbole, “was aroused.” The crime Paul was alleged to have committed was a capital one and could easil…

And the city was moved. Here we see the fickleness of the common people, who consider Paul a condemned man before they even hear him.

And all the city was moved, and the people ran together ,
&c.] The outcry in the temple reached the ears of some tha…

In the temple, where Paul should have been protected as in a place of safety, he was violently attacked. They falsely charged him with false doctri…