Acts 21:30-35

³⁰Then the whole city was provoked and the people rushed together, and taking hold of Paul they dragged him out of the temple, and immediately the doors were shut. ³¹While they were intent on killing him, a report came up to the commander of the Roman cohort that all Jerusalem was in confusion. ³²He immediately took along some soldiers and centurions and ran down to the crowd; and when they saw the commander and the soldiers, they stopped beating Paul. ³³Then the commander came up and took hold of him, and ordered that he be bound with two chains; and he began asking who he was and what he had done. ³⁴But among the crowd, some were shouting one thing and some another, and when he could not find out the facts because of the uproar, he ordered that Paul be brought into the barracks. ³⁵When Paul got to the stairs, it came about that he was carried by the soldiers because of the violence of the mob;