TSK · Acts 21:34

So then some were shouting one thing, some another, for the assembly was in confusion, and most of them did not know why they had met together.

the commanding officer ordered Paul to be brought back into the barracks. He told them to interrogate Paul by beating him with a lash so that he could find out the reason the crowd was shouting at Paul in this way.

When the argument became so great the commanding officer feared that they would tear Paul to pieces, he ordered the detachment to go down, take him away from them by force, and bring him into the barracks.

The next day they let the horsemen go on with him, and they returned to the barracks.