When the commander seeks information from the crowd on who Paul is and what he had done, all he receives back is confusion and contradiction. Compare with Acts 19:32. "Lysias could make little sense out of what the mob was shouting" (Reese p. 804). "He ordered him brought into the barracks" He was taken to the fortress of Antonia.
INTO THE CASTLE - The castle of Antonia, where the guard was kept. See the notes on Acts 21:31. Compare Acts 23:10, Acts 23:16....
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)...
CRIED. were crying out. Greek. _boao_, as in Acts 17:6. The texts read _epiphoneo_, as in Acts 12:22 (gave. shout) and Acts 22:24. MULTITUDE. Same as people,...
_And some cried_[_R. V._shouted] … _another_ The verb is the same which St Luke uses for the din of the multitude which shouted against Jesus (Luke 23:21), "Crucify him;" also for the adulatory shouti...
ἘΠΕΦΏΝΟΥΝ for ἐβόων with אABDE. ΜῊ ΔΥΝΑΜΈΝΟΥ ΔῈ ΑΥ̓ΤΟΥ͂ with אABDE. 34. ἌΛΛΟΙ ΔῈ ἌΛΛΟ ΤΙ ἘΠΕΦΏΝΟΥΝ, _and some shouted one thing and some another_. ἐπιφωνέω is the verb which St Luke gives for the din...
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...
ΈΠΕΦΏΝΟΥΝ _impf. ind. act. от_ ΈΠΙΦΩΝΈΩ (G2019) призывать. _Impf._ изображает длительное действие, "они продолжали кричать" ΔΥΝΑΜΈΝΟΥ _praes. pass. (dep.) part._ (причины) ΔΎΝΑΜΑΙ (G2318) быть способ...
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...
See notes on verse 31...
And some cried one thing, some another, among the multitude: and when he could not know the certainty for the tumult, he commanded him to be carried into the castle. And some cried one thing, some an...
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....
CASTLE] lit. 'encampment.' The fortress Antonia is meant....
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...
SOME CRIED ONE THING, SOME ANOTHER. — We note the parallelism with the like confused clamour at Ephesus (Acts 19:32), which is described in exactly the same terms. HE COMMANDED HIM TO BE CARRIED INTO...
ἐβόων : if we read ἐπεφώνουν, see critical note, a verb peculiar to St. Luke, Luke 23:21; Acts 12:22; Acts 22:24 = “shouted,” R.V., _cf._ Acts 19:31. μὴ δυνάμ., see
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...
_Into the castle. [1] Neither the Latin nor the Greek word signifies a castle, but rather a camp, or a place walled, or with a trench about it. It is true, we may here understand the tower, called Ant...
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...
− 34._Some cried one thing, and some another. _The madness of the raging people doth betray itself on every side. They make horrible outcries, whereof one is contrary to another. Nevertheless, they de...
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...
AND SOME CRIED ONE THING, AND SOME ANOTHER, AMONG THE MULTITUDE,.... For though they agreed to beat him, and even to kill him, yet some of them knew not for what; being led by a blind zeal for Moses,...
And some cried one thing, some another, among the multitude: and when he could not know the certainty for the tumult, he commanded him to be carried into the castle. Ver. 34. _For the tumult_] All wa...
_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...
THE CASTLE; the fortress of Antonia, where the soldiers were stationed....
The captain of the Roman band interferes:...
AND SOME CRIED ONE THING, SOME ANOTHER, AMONG THE MULTITUDE; AND WHEN HE COULD NOT KNOW THE CERTAINTY FOR THE TUMULT, HE COMMANDED HIM TO BE CARRIED INTO THE CASTLE. It was a typical mob, without reas...
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...
AND SOME AMONG THE MULTITUDE CRIED ONE THING AND SOME ANOTHER. SO WHEN HE COULD NOT ASCERTAIN THE TRUTH BECAUSE OF THE TUMULT, HE COMMANDED HIM TO BE TAKEN INTO THE BARRACKS. 1. The same thing happen...
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...
SOME CRIED ONE THING, SOME ANOTHER; as is usual in popular commotions, they agreed in doing mischief, but not in the reason of it. INTO THE CASTLE called Antonia, because it was built in honour of Mar...
Acts 21:34 And G1161 some G243 among G1722 multitude G3793 cried G994 (G5707) thing G5100 another G243 So...
‘And some shouted one thing, some another, among the crowd. And when he could not know the certainty for the uproar, he commanded him to be brought into the castle.' The inexcusable nature of the situ...
Acts 21:34. AND SOME CRIED ONE THING, AND SOME ANOTHER, AMONG THE MULTITUDE. The same angry, confused murmur of voices and cries were heard among the crowd as at Ephesus in the amphitheater when the J...
SOME SHOUTING ONE THING, SOME ANOTHER (αλλο αλλο τ επεφωνουν). Same idiom of αλλο αλλο as in Acts 19:32 which see. The imperfect of επιφωνεω, to call out to, suits well the idiom. This old verb occ...
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...
_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 19:32; Acts 22:30; Acts 25:26; Acts 21:37; Acts 22:24;...
Castle [π α ρ ε μ β ο λ η ν]. Better, barracks. The main tower had a smaller tower at each corner, the one at the southeastern corner being the largest and overlooking the temple. In this tower were t...