Acts 21:28-31

²⁸and started yelling at the top of their lungs, "Help! You Israelites, help! This is the man who is going all over the world telling lies against us and our religion and this place. He''s even brought Greeks in here and defiled this holy place."

²⁹(What had happened was that they had seen Paul and Trophimus, the Ephesian Greek, walking together in the city and had just assumed that he had also taken him to the Temple and shown him around.)

³⁰Soon the whole city was in an uproar, people running from everywhere to the Temple to get in on the action. They grabbed Paul, dragged him outside, and locked the Temple gates so he couldn''t get back in and gain sanctuary.

³¹As they were trying to kill him, word came to the captain of the guard, "A riot! The whole city''s boiling over!"