Combined Bible Commentary
Acts 21:28
See notes on verse 27
See notes on verse 27
Verse Acts 21:28. _THIS IS THE MAN THAT TEACHETH_, c.] As much as if they had said: This is the man concerning whom we wrote to you who in every place endeavours to prejudice the Gentiles against the...
MEN OF ISRAEL - Jews. All who are the friends of the Law of Moses. THIS IS THE MAN ... - This implies that they had before given information to the Jews at Jerusalem that there was such a man, and th...
CHAPTER 21 _ 1. The journey from Miletus to Tyre and Ptolemais (Acts 21:1)._ 2. In Caesarea (Acts 21:8). 3. The Apostle's Arrival in Jerusalem and his visit to the Temple (Acts 21:15). 4. The Uproa...
OUTBURST OF JEWISH FURY AGAINST PAUL IN THE TEMPLE: HIS ARREST. A week later Paul is in the Temple to discharge his vow; whether it was discharged or not is uncertain. The sight of him there infuriate...
When the seven days were nearly completed and when the Jews from Asia had seen Paul in the temple, they stirred up the whole mob and they attacked him shouting, "Help, men of Israel! This is the man w...
NO RETREAT (Acts 21:1-16)...
MEN OF ISRAEL. See note on Acts 1:11; Acts 2:22. THIS. This one, this fellow. MAN. Greek. _anthropos_. App-123. AGAINST. Greek. _kata_. App-104. PEOPLE. Greek. _laos_. See Acts 2:47....
_crying … help_ The cry as if an outrage had been committed, and they, the strangers visiting Jerusalem, were the persons who could afford the best testimony to what had been done. For had they not se...
ΒΟΗΘΕΙ͂ΤΕ, _Help_. The cry is as if an outrage had been committed, and they, the strangers visiting Jerusalem, were the persons who could afford the best testimony to what had been done. For had they...
ARRIVAL AT JERUSALEM. PAUL’S RECEPTION BY THE CHURCH AND BY THE PEOPLE...
_SLANDEROUS CHARGES AGAINST PAUL ACTS 21:27-36:_ Paul was in and out of the Temple several times to perform the ritual suggested by James. Afterwards, "the Jews which were of Asia said, "This is the m...
ΚΡΆΖΟΝΤΕΣ _praes. act. part. (сопутств.) от_ ΚΡΆΖΩ (G2896) кричать, ΒΟΗΘΕΪ́ΤΕ _praes. imper. act. от_ ΒΟΗΘΈΩ (G997) помогать. _Praes. imper._ здесь подчеркивает процесс или разные детали помощи (VAN...
TEACHETH—AGAINST—THE LAW, AND THIS PLACE:— Every thing contrary to the law would be justly interpreted as contrary to the temple which was so evidently supported by a regard to it: but perhaps St. Pau...
b. Jews from Asia cause Paul's arrest. Acts 21:27-40. Acts 21:27 And when the seven days were almost completed, the Jews from Asia, when they saw him in the temple, stirred up all the multitude and...
CRYING OUT, MEN OF ISRAEL, HELP: THIS IS THE MAN, THAT TEACHETH ALL MEN EVERY WHERE AGAINST THE PEOPLE, AND THE LAW, AND THIS PLACE: AND FURTHER BROUGHT GREEKS ALSO INTO THE TEMPLE, AND HATH POLLUTED...
24 The belief of the circumcisionists, based on tangible evidence, such as signs and wonders, was of a very different quality from that of Paul's epistles. In our Lord's day "many believe in [into] Hi...
21:28 Israelites, (a-2) Lit. 'Men Israelites.'...
ST. PAUL ARRESTED AT JERUSALEM 1. Were gotten] rather, 'had torn ourselves.' COOS] or Cos, a fertile island off the Carian coast, producing silks, ointments, wheat, and wines. RHODES] a city, and lar...
ST. PAUL IN JERUSALEM (CHS 21:17-28:16) 17-40. Disturbances in the Temple. St Paul arrested....
Apollos at Ephesus. 24. Apollos] The name is a contraction of Apollonius. He is mentioned again Acts 19:1; 1 Corinthians 1:12; 1 Corinthians 3:4.;...
CONVINCED] RV 'confuted,'...
GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE ACTS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 21 PAUL VISITS THE *BELIEVERS IN TYRE, 21:1-6 V1 We said goodbye to them and then we left. We sailed straight to Cos. The next day, we went to...
Ἄνδρες Ἰσ.: the title which would remind them of the special dignity and glory of their nation, of its hopes and obligations. βοηθεῖτε : as if against some outrage, or perhaps as if to apprehend Paul,...
FACING A BIGOTED MOB Acts 21:27 Four days passed and there seemed a hope that, as the number of pilgrims grew less, Paul might escape recognition till his vow was fulfilled. In fulfilling it he was r...
Passing on toward Jerusalem, Paul and those with him reached Tyre. There the disciples urged the apostle not to go to Jerusalem; but, having received from the Spirit a revelation of all that lay befor...
Paul's Arrest in the Temple Paul yielded to the proposal set forth by James and the others and began to be purified, perhaps to enter the inner part of the temple (See McGarvey). Near the end of the s...
PAUL ARRESTED 27-30. You see plainly that this affair was diabolical, mobocratic and unapologizable from the beginning, as even the most radical Jews fully approved what Paul was doing. The whole aff...
And when the seven days were almost ended, the Jews which were of Asia, when they saw him in the temple, stirred up all the people, and laid hands on him, (28) Crying out, Men of Israel, help: This is...
The closing Chapter s from 21 to the end of the book are devoted to an episode full of interest and profit Paul's course from Jerusalem to Rome. And here we find ourselves in an atmosphere considerabl...
− 28._Men of Israel, help. _They cry out as if they were in extreme danger, and they call upon all men to help them, as if all religion were in hazard. Whereby we see with what furious hatred they wer...
After this time the apostle has to give account of himself, and to accomplish in a striking manner the predictions of the Lord. Brought before tribunals by the malice of the Jews, given up through the...
CRYING OUT, MEN OF ISRAEL, HELP,.... The Arabic and Ethiopic versions read, "help us"; to hold Paul, on whom they had laid their hands, and to assist in beating him: but why such an outcry for help ag...
Crying out, Men of Israel, help: This is the man, that teacheth all _men_ every where against the people, and the law, and this place: and further brought Greeks also into the temple, and hath pollute...
_Then Paul took the men_ Agreeably to the advice which he had received from James and the elders. _And the next day, purifying himself with them_ According to the rites of the law; _entered into the t...
GREEKS; Gentiles, who were considered as unclean, and were forbidden to enter that part of the temple appropriated to the Jews, lest they should defile it....
CRYING OUT, MEN OF ISRAEL, HELP! THIS IS THE MAN THAT TEACHETH ALL MEN EVERYWHERE AGAINST THE PEOPLE AND THE LAW AND THIS PLACE; AND FURTHER BROUGHT GREEKS ALSO INTO THE TEMPLE, AND HATH POLLUTED THIS...
The beginning of the riot:...
From this point onwards there is no record of the work of God spreading as it had previously through Paul's energetic ministry. In fact, we read of no conversions until Chapter 28:24, though we may be...
CRYING OUT, " MEN OF ISRAEL, HELP! THIS IS THE MAN WHO TEACHES ALL _MEN_ EVERYWHERE AGAINST THE PEOPLE, THE LAW, AND THIS PLACE; AND FURTHERMORE HE ALSO BROUGHT GREEKS INTO THE TEMPLE AND HAS DEFILED...
"Men of Israel, come to our aid" The inference is that all men of Israel need to unite against this invader. "This is the man who preaches to all men everywhere against our people" Compare to the accu...
27-40 In the temple, where Paul should have been protected as in a place of safety, he was violently set upon. They falsely charged him with ill doctrine and ill practice against the Mosaic ceremonie...
OLBGrk; MEN OF ISRAEL; minding them by this compellation, of their being a peculiar people unto God, and that none might be admitted with them in his worship. A charge is laid against St. Paul consist...
Acts 21:28 out G2896 (G5723) Men G435 Israel G2475 help G997 (G5720) This G3778 is G2076 ...
“And when the seven days were almost completed, the Jews from Asia, when they saw him in the temple, stirred up all the crowd and laid hands on him, crying out, “Men of Israel, help. This is the man w...
PAUL PROVES HIS TRUE DEDICATION IN JERUSALEM AND HIS CONFORMITY WITH THE LAW AND DOES NOTHING THAT IS WORTHY OF DEATH BUT THE DOORS OF THE TEMPLE ARE CLOSED AGAINST HIM (21:17-30)....
Acts 21:28. CRYING OUT, MEN OF ISRAEL, HELP: THIS IS THE MAN THAT TEACHETH ALL MEN EVERYWHERE AGAINST THE PEOPLE, AND THE LAW, AND THIS PLACE. The immediate provocation no doubt was the fact of Paul b...
HELP (βοηθειτε). Present active imperative of βοηθεω, to run (θεω) at a cry (βοη), as if an outrage had been committed like murder or assault.ALL MEN EVERYWHERE (παντα πανταχη). Alliterative. Παντ...
CONTENTS: Holy Spirit forbids Paul to go to Jerusalem. Paul goes to Jerusalem. Paul takes a Jewish vow. Seized in the temple by the Jews and bound with chains. CHARACTERS: Paul, Holy Spirit, Philip,...
Acts 21:1. _We came with a straight course to Coos,_ or Cos. See the map of St. Paul's travels. It is the principal island of the group called Cyclades. Hypocrates the physician, and Apelles the paint...
SOME JEWS FROM THE PROVINCE OF ASIA. These were not Christian Jews, but probably the Jews from Ephesus mentioned in Acts 20:3. The language implies they did not see Paul until the seven days of purifi...
_And when the seven days were almost ended the Jews which were of Asia … stirred up all the people._ PAUL IN THE TEMPLE 1. Unholy zeal is more easily occasioned than good works (Acts 21:27). 2. Reli...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 21:17 The Arrest in Jerusalem. While fulfilling a vow at the temple, Paul was attacked by a Jewish mob and rescued by the Romans. He defended himself before the Jewish crowd and the...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 21:28 DEFILED THIS HOLY PLACE. The Jews from Asia (v. Acts 21:27) wrongly charged Paul with defiling the temple by taking a Gentile (“Trophimus the Ephesian,” v.
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 21:26. PAUL TOOK THE MEN, AND THE NEXT DAY PURIFYING HIMSELF, might read _took the men the next day, and having purified himself_, not by performing the ordinary ablutions requ...
EXPOSITION ACTS 21:1 _When it came to pass float we were parted from them, and had set sail _for _it came to pass, that after we were gotten from them, and had launched, _A.V.; _Cos _for _Coos_, A.V....
And so it came to pass, that after we had gotten from them, and we had launched, we came with a straight course unto Coos, and the following day unto to Rhodes, and from there to Patara: where we foun...
Acts 19:26; Acts 24:5; Acts 24:6; Acts 21:21; Acts 24:18;...
This place. The temple. Compare the charge against Stephen, ch. 6 13. Greeks. See on ch. Acts 6:1. Temple [ι ε ρ ο ν]. See on Matthew 4:5. The Jews evidently meant to create the impression that Paul h...
Against the people — The Jewish nation; and the law — Of Moses; and this place — The temple. Yea, and hath even brought Greeks into the temple — They might come into the outer court. But they imagined...