Acts 21:35-36 "Luke indicates the situation was indeed perilous at this moment. The Jews make an increasingly violent effort to get at the prisoner, and the soldiers pick him up bodily (with others defending those who carried the prisoner by forming. protective shield about them) and begin to move up the stairs into the fortress" (Reese p. 805). "Away with him" Compare with Luke 23:18 and John 19:15.
Verse 35. _AND WHEN HE CAME UPON THE STAIRS_] Those mentioned in the note on Acts 21:31....
UPON THE STAIRS - The stairs which led from the temple to the castle of Antonia. Josephus says (_Jewish Wars_, book 5, chapter 5, section 8), that the castle of Antonia “was situated at the corner of...
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...
NO RETREAT (Acts 21:1-16)...
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...
STAIRS. Greek. _anabathmos._ Only here and Acts 21:40. SO IT WAS. it befell, as in Acts 20:19. BORNE. Greek. _bastazo,_ as in Acts 15:10. OF. by. Greek. _hupo._ App-104. violence
_And … stairs_ This was the flight of steps leading from the Temple area up to the Tower where the soldiers were stationed. The stairs were not covered in, for St Paul is able to address the multitude...
ἘΠῚ ΤΟῪΣ�, _upon the stairs_. The noun is common in the LXX. (cf. 1 Kings 10:19-20, &c.) but not in classical Greek. It occurs Herod. II. 125. The stairs mentioned here are the flight of steps leading...
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...
ΈΓΈΝΕΤΟ _aor. ind. med. (dep.), см._ Acts 21:1. ΆΝΑΒΑΘΜΌΣ (G304) ступень. Это были ступени, ведущие из храмовой зоны в крепость (_см._ Acts 21:34). ΣΥΝΈΒΗ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΣΥΜΒΑΊΝΩ (G4819) случат...
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...
35-39. It was but a short distance to the castle of Antonia, which overlooked the temple inclosure, and was connected with it by a stairway. Thither the apostle was rapidly borne, the mob pressing aft...
And when he came upon the stairs, so it was, that he was borne of the soldiers for the violence of the people. And when he came upon the stairs, so it was, that he was borne of the soldiers for the v...
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...
WHEN HE CAME UPON THE STAIRS... — This was one of the flights leading, as has been said, from the tower to the Temple area. Here the violence of the crowd became greater as they were more pressed in,...
ἐγέν. ἐπὶ, _cf._ Acts 21:17, and Luke 24:22, Grimm, _sub_ γίν., 5, g. ἀναβ.: the steps which led up to the fortress from the Temple area. _B.J._, v., 5, 8, describes the surroundings of the scene vivi...
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...
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...
AND WHEN HE CAME UPON THE STAIRS,.... Or steps, which led up to the castle; for it was built upon a very high place, as appears from the account of it in the preceding verse; to which agrees what Aris...
And when he came upon the stairs, so it was, that he was borne of the soldiers for the violence of the people. Ver. 35. _He was borne of the soldiers_] Who considered as little what a precious pack t...
_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 STAIRS; which led from the temple to the castle....
On the way to the barracks:...
AND WHEN HE CAME UPON THE STAIRS, SO IT WAS THAT HE WAS BORNE OF THE SOLDIERS FOR THE VIOLENCE OF THE PEOPLE....
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...
WHEN HE REACHED THE STAIRS, HE HAD TO BE CARRIED BY THE SOLDIERS BECAUSE OF THE VIOLENCE OF THE MOB. 1. The Roman palace was about 75 feet higher than the Temple grounds. 2. As they approached the s...
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...
WHEN HE CAME UPON THE STAIRS, in the ascent to the castle, HE WAS BORNE OF THE SOLDIERS; either because the press was so great, he being in the midst of them; or being taken up by them, to secure him...
35-39. It was but a short distance to the castle of Antonia, which overlooked the temple inclosure, and was connected with it by a stairway. Thither the apostle was rapidly borne, the mob pressing aft...
Acts 21:35 G1161 When G3753 reached G1096 (G5633) G1909 stairs G304 had G4819 (G5627) carried...
‘And when he came on the stairs, so it was that he was borne of the soldiers for the violence of the crowd, for the multitude of the people followed after, crying out, “Away with him.” ' His strategy...
UPON THE STAIRS (επ τους αναβαθμους). From ανα, up, and βαινω, to go. Late word, in LXX and _Koine_ writers. In the N.T. only here and verse Acts 21:40.SO IT WAS (συνεβη). Second aorist active of...
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...
Genesis 6:11; Genesis 6:12; Habakkuk 1:2; Habakkuk 1:3; Jeremiah 23:10;
When he came upon the stairs — The castle of Antonia was situate on a rock fifty cubits high, at that corner of the outward temple, where the western and northern porticos joined, to each of which the...