KJV ORIGINAL
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.
Close to the original. Clear modern English.
✦ MADE SIMPLE
When the argument got so heated that the captain was genuinely worried they might literally tear Paul apart, he ordered his soldiers to go in and physically pull Paul out of there and get him back to safety at the fortress.
⚡ THE BOTTOM LINE
Sometimes God uses unlikely people to protect you when things get messy.
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