TSK · Acts 21:34

Some therefore cried one thing, and some another, for the assembly was in confusion. Most of them didn't know why they had come together.

the commanding officer commanded him to be brought into the barracks, ordering him to be examined by scourging, that he might know for what crime they shouted against him like that.

When a great argument arose, the commanding officer, fearing that Paul would be torn in pieces by them, commanded the soldiers to go down and take him by force from among them, and bring him into the barracks.

But on the next day they left the horsemen to go with him, and returned to the barracks.