Acts 23:10
And when there arose a great dissension, the chief captain, fearing lest Paul should have been pulled in pieces of them, commanded the soldiers to go down, and to take him by force from among them, and to bring him into the castle. And when there arose a great dissension, the chief captain, fearing lest Paul should have been pulled in pieces of them, commanded the soldiers to go down, and to take him by force from among them, and to bring him into the castle.
The uproar was a violent split inside the Sanhedrin over Paul, with Pharisees set against Sadducees until the clash turned life-threatening. Seeing the danger that he would be torn apart, the chief captain ordered soldiers to go down among them, seize him by force from the crowd, and bring him into the castle fortress for protection.
The fury was opposition to his defense of the truth, driven by hostile Jewish leaders determined to silence him. His truthful words had exposed the contrast between truth and error, and their hostility grew so violent that the Roman commander feared the crowd would tear him apart and had him taken by force to the castle.