Combined Bible Commentary
Acts 21:33
See notes on verse 31
See notes on verse 31
Verse 33. _AND TOOK HIM_] With _great violence_, according to Acts 24:7, probably meaning an _armed force_. _TO BE BOUND WITH TWO CHAINS_] To be bound between two soldiers; his right hand chained to...
TO BE BOUND WITH TWO CHAINS - To show to the enraged multitude that he did not intend to rescue anyone from justice, but to keep the peace. Paul’s Being thus bound would convince them of his determina...
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)...
CAME NEAR, AND. having drawn near. TWO CHAINS: i.e. either hand chained to. soldier. See note on Acts 12:6. DEMANDED. Greek. _punthanomai_. See note on Acts 4:7; Acts 10:18....
_Then … took him_ The last verb implies a formal arrest, therefore the _Rev. Ver._rightly gives "_laid hold on him_." The chief captain did not come with a view to relieve St Paul, but to find out wha...
ἘΠΕΛΆΒΕΤΟ ΑΥ̓ΤΟΥ͂, _laid hold on him_. The verb implies a formal arrest. The chief captain did not come with a view to relieve St Paul, but to find out what was the matter, and seeing the Apostle in t...
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...
ΈΓΓΊΣΑΣ _aor. act. part. (temp.) от_ ΕΓΓΊΖΩ (G1448) приближать, ΈΠΕΛΑΒΕΤΟ _aor. ind. med. (dep.), см._ Acts 21:30. ΈΚΈΛΕΥΣΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΚΕΛΕΎΩ (G2753) приказывать, ΔΕΘΉΝΑΙ _aor. pass. inf.,...
AND ALL THE CITY WAS MOVED,— The accusation brought against St. Paul, though false, put all the city in a commotion, and brought a vast concourse of people together, who seized upon him in order to ki...
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...
_ Then the chief captain came near, and took him, and commanded him to be bound with two chains; and demanded who he was, and what he had done._ Then the chief captain came near, and took him, and co...
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...
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....
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...
COMMANDED HIM TO BE BOUND WITH TWO CHAINS. — Looking to the usual Roman practices in the treatment of prisoners, we may think of each chain as fastened at one end to the Apostle’s arm, and at the othe...
ἐπελ. αὐτοῦ : with a hostile intention, see Acts 17:19. δεθ. ἁλύσεσι δυσὶ : as a malefactor and seditious person, Acts 21:38, to be guarded securely as the cause of the tumult, _cf._ Acts 12:6. τίς ἂν...
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...
_Two chains, for his hands and feet; or perhaps one chain was put on each hand, which was likewise tied to a soldier on each side of him, who led him. This was the Roman custom of binding prisoners. S...
Lysias, the Roman kiliarch, commander-in-chief at Castle Antonia on Mt. Moriah near the temple, the Roman citadel for the protection of Jerusalem, in all of his treatment of Paul shows up a very beaut...
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...
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...
THEN THE CHIEF CAPTAIN CAME NEAR,.... To the place where the Jews were beating Paul: AND TOOK HIM the Arabic version adds, "from them"; he rescued him out of their hands, as he himself says, Acts 23:...
Then the chief captain came near, and took him, and commanded _him_ to be bound with two chains; and demanded who he was, and what he had done. Ver. 33. _To be bound with two chains_] As if he would...
_And as they went about to kill him_ It was a rule among the Jews, that any uncircumcised person who came within the separating wall, mentioned above, might be stoned to death without any further proc...
BOUND WITH TWO CHAINS; a fulfilment of the prophecy, Acts 21:11....
THEN THE CHIEF CAPTAIN CAME NEAR, AND TOOK HIM, AND COMMANDED HIM TO BE BOUND WITH TWO CHAINS; AND DEMANDED WHO HE WAS AND WHAT HE HAD DONE....
The captain of the Roman band interferes:...
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...
THEN THE COMMANDER CAME NEAR AND TOOK HIM, AND COMMANDED _HIM_ TO BE BOUND WITH TWO CHAINS; AND HE ASKED WHO HE WAS AND WHAT HE HAD DONE. 1. Paul is now in the hands of the Romans. 2. He is bound wi...
Paul is immediately arrested and bound with chains. "At least, the arrest of the central figure would be the quickest way to stop the uproar" (Reese p. 804). Remember, the commander in charge does not...
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...
BOUND WITH TWO CHAINS; whether as Peter was, SEE POOLE ON "ACTS 12:6", or that he was bound with one upon his feet, and with the other upon his hands, it was exactly fulfilled what Agabus had prophesi...
Acts 21:33 Then G5119 commander G5506 near G1448 (G5660) took G1949 (G5633) him G846 and G2532 commanded...
‘Then the chief captain came near, and laid hold on him, and commanded him to be bound with two chains, and enquired who he was, and what he had done.' Breaking through the crowd, and aware that he mi...
Acts 21:33. THEN THE CHIEF CAPTAIN CAME NEAR, AND TOOK HIM, AND COMMANDED HIM TO BE BOUND WITH TWO CHAINS. The ‘chief captain' assumed that Paul was a criminal and guilty of some very grave crime agai...
CAME NEAR (εγγισας). First aorist active participle of εγγιζω, to draw near, _Koine_ verb from εγγυς, near, and common in the N.T.LAID HOLD ON HIM (επελαβετο αντου). See same verb in verse Acts 2...
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 21:33 BOUND WITH TWO CHAINS probably means bound with a soldier on each side. ⇐...
_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 22:24; Acts 25:16; Acts 12:6; Acts 20:23; Acts 21:11;...
Chains [α λ υ σ ε σ ι]. See on Mark 5:4....
Then the tribune — Having made his way through the multitude, came near and took him — And how many great ends of providence were answered by this imprisonment? This was not only a means of preserving...