For they previously saw Trophimus the Ephesian in the city with him, and supposed that Paul had brought him into the temple — the Jews infer from circumstantial evidence (seeing Trophimus, an Ephesian companion, in Jerusalem) that Paul violated the temple sanctuary. Assumption and rumor become the basis for lethal violence; the crowd's judgment is based on supposition, not fact.

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