Acts 21:15

And after those days we took up our carriages, and went up to Jerusalem. And after those days we took up our carriages, [ EPISEUASAMENOI ( G1980a)] - 'we put up our And after those days we took up our carriages, [ EPISEUASAMENOI ( G1980a)] - 'we put up our baggage,' AND WENT UP TO JERUSALEM _ - for the fifth time since his conversion; thus concluding his third and last missionary tour (so far as recorded); for though he accomplished the fourth and last part of the plan sketched out in _ - "after I have been at Jerusalem I must also see Rome" - it was as "a prisoner of Jesus Christ" that he entered it. The apostle was full of anxiety about this visit to Jerusalem, from the numerous prophetic intimations of danger awaiting him, and from having reason to expect the presence at this feast of the very parties from whose virulent rage he

− 15._When we had taken up our burdens. _Paul’s companions declare, that when they went about to call back Paul from danger, they did rather care for the common safety of the Church, than every man for his own life. For after they had taken the repulse, they do not refuse to take part with him in the same danger; and yet this was a plausible excuse that they were bound by no law to be hauled to suffer death, through one man’s stubbornness. And this is truly to bring our affections in subjection to God, when we are terrified with no fear, but every one of us endeavoreth, so much as he is able, to further that which we know doth please him. Also, it appeareth more plainly what great ferventness of godliness was in the rest, who of their own accord accompany him, and bring him an host; whereas, notwithstanding, they might well have feared many discommodities. −...

8-18 Paul had express warning of his troubles, that when they came, they might be no surprise or terror to him. The general notice given us, that through much tribulation we must enter into the kingdom of God, should be of the same use to us. Their weeping began to weaken and slacken his resolution Has not our Master told us to take up our cross? It was a trouble to him, that they should so earnestly press him to do that in which he could not gratify them without wronging his conscience. When we see trouble coming, it becomes us to say, not only, The will of the Lord must be done, and there is no remedy; but, Let the will of the Lord be done; for his will is his wisdom, and he doeth all according to the counsel of it. When a trouble is come, this must allay our griefs, that the will of the Lord is done; when we see it coming, this must silence our fears, that the will of the Lord shall...

Verse Acts 21:15. _TOOK UP OUR CARRIAGES_] αποσκευασαμενοι; We made ourselves ready; packed up our things; got our baggage in order. This is what the text means....

AFTER THOSE DAYS - After what had occurred, as related in the previous verses. WE TOOK UP OUR CARRIAGES - This is a most unhappy translation. The word carriage we apply now exclusively to a vehicle for conveying anything as a coach, chariot, gig, cannon carriage, etc. The original word means simply that they prepared themselves; made themselves ready; put their baggage in order, etc. ἀποσκευασάμενοι aposkeuasamenoi. They prepared for the journey. The English word carriage was formerly used in the sense of what is carried, baggage, burden, vessels, furniture, etc. Thus, it was used in the time that our translation was made; and in this sense it is to be understood in 1 Samuel 17:22, “And David left his carriage (baggage) in the hand of the keeper of the carriag

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 T.R.; _next day _for _day following, _A.V. PARTED FROM THEM (ἀποσπασθέντας)_. _"Non sine desiderio magno" (Bengel). "He shows the violence of the parting by saying, ' Having torn ourselves away '" (Chrysostom). The word is properly applied to those who have been unwillingly torn away from their friends (Schleusner and Kuinoel); "denotes the painful separation wrung from them by necessity" (Meyer) In Acts 20:30 it was used in the active voice of false teachers "drawing away" the disciples, _i.e. _Christians

AND AFTER THOSE DAYS WE TOOK UP OUR CARRIAGES,.... Or prepared themselves, both for their journey, and for whatever trials and exercises they were to meet with; they took up their bundles, which hitherto were brought by sea, and now put them upon beasts, going by land from Caesarea: AND WENT UP TO JERUSALEM; which stood on higher ground, and was, as Josephus n says, six hundred furlongs, or seventy five miles distant. n De Bello Jud. l. 1. c. 3. sect. 5....

ACTS 21:12-15 In these verses one or another Western witness makes sundry small additions. In ver. Acts 21:12 after oi` evnto,pioi D and itgig add to.n Pau/lon; in ver. Acts 21:13 Dgr adds pro.j h`ma/j before o` Pau/loj; after deqh/nai D and Tertullian add bou,lomai; and after VIhsou/ C D itgig syrp _al_ add Cristou/; in ver....

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 Uproar in the Temple. Paul taken prisoner (Acts 21:27). Coos, Rhodes and Patara are mentioned. Then they sailed over to Phenicia and landed in Tyre. Here they found disciples. And the Holy Spirit through these disciples warned the Apostle at once that he should not go to Jerusalem. This, indeed, was very solemn. If these disciples had spoken of themselves, if it said that they were in anxiety over Paul's journey to that

ACTS 21:15 F. TO JERUSALEM.We packed up is probably nearer the original than either AV or RV (see _mg.)._ The arrangement of quarters at Jerusalem for the party is interesting; but D and the Philox. Syriac read: when we came to a certain village we found quarters with Mnason. The journey was 65 miles; they would be more than one night on the way....