Acts 21:33
Then the chief captain came near, and took him, and commanded him to be bound with two chains; and demanded who he was, and what he had done. Then the chief captain came near, and took him, and commanded him to be bound with two chains; and demanded who he was, and what he had done.
Paul had entered the temple for the days of purification when Jews from Asia who had opposed him in the synagogue at Ephesus and were enraged by his success in raising up a Christian church there recognized him. Those Jews seized him inside the temple precincts crying that he taught everywhere against the people and the law and the temple, and falsely charged that he had brought Greeks inside and polluted the holy place because he had been seen in the city with Trophimus the Ephesian. Though the charge was wholly false and as a Jew he had broken no law by entering, the outcry stirred the temple crowds until the whole city was moved and ran together. Only reverence for the temple kept him from being torn in pieces on the spot; with blows and shouts the mob dragged him from the sacred enclosure into the court of the Gentiles to stone him to death as Stephen had been stoned, while the Levites shut the gates behind them lest the holy place be polluted with blood, when the murderous attack was interrupted.
On receiving word that all Jerusalem was in an uproar, Claudius Lysias, the chief captain of the Roman band and garrison in Jerusalem, knowing how turbulent the people were, immediately ran down to the temple court with soldiers and centurions, officers and a strong force of armed men, and at the sight of him and the soldiers the crowd stopped beating Paul. Ignorant of the cause of the tumult but seeing the multitude's rage directed against Paul, he concluded Paul must be a certain Egyptian rebel who had escaped capture and eluded Roman vigilance, so he seized Paul and ordered him bound with two chains, placing him between two soldiers with a hand chained to each, while demanding who he was and what he had done, asking those who seemed leaders what his prisoner's identity and crime were.
Amid the uproar of many loud angry accusations he could obtain no satisfactory information, so he ordered the prisoner removed to the castle where the Roman barracks were. The multitude in unbounded rage at losing their prey surged and pressed so closely that the soldiers had to bear Paul in their arms up the staircase. Priests and people were moved by the same spirit that thirty years before had clamored for the blood of the Son of God, echoing from staircase and crowd the demand that he be taken away.