21:36

For: The Greek conjunction that the Berean Standard Bible translates literally as For introduces this verse. Here it introduces additional information about the crowd. For example:

for the multitude of the people kept following them, shouting, “Away with him! (New American Standard Bible)
-or-

and indeed the whole mob was after them, shouting, ‘Do away with him!’ (New Jerusalem Bible)

The Berean Standard Bible uses the conjunction, but the New International Version and many English versions omit the conjunction and allow the context to indicate that meaning.

the crowd that followed him kept shouting: The Greek grammar indicates that the crowd continued following and shouting. Other ways to translate this clause are:

The crowd were following and shouting
-or-
the crowd followed behind shouting, “Kill him, kill him!” (New Living Translation (2004))

the crowd: This phrase in Greek is literally “the multitude of people.” It refers to the crowd/mob (21:35c). Here its meaning is very similar to “crowd.” Other ways to translate this phrase are:

the mob of the people (Revised Standard Version)
-or-
they (Good News Translation)

Away with him: This command probably implies killing Paul. Some English versions translate the implied meaning. For example:

Kill him! (Good News Translation)

The command is addressed to someone the crowd would call “you(sing).” They probably said this to the commander.

Some languages must use a pronoun in a command. If that is true in your language, use “you(sing)” here. For example:

You(sing), take him away
-or-
You(sing), kill him

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