Acts 21:20

ἐδόξ.: “recte imperf. quia finis verbo εἶπαν indicatur,” Blass. θεωρεῖς : the word seems to imply that Paul had already become cognisant of the fact by his own observations in his ministerial work. ἀδελφέ : St. Paul is recognised as an ἀδελφός not only by St. James but by the assembled elders (see also Weiss, in loco). Ἰουδ., see critical note. μυριάδες, cf. Luke 12:1, of a large but indefinite number (cf. 1 Corinthians 4:15), referring to the number of believers not only in Jerusalem but in Judæa present in large numbers for the Feast. The word cannot refer to Jewish Christians in a wider sense, as Overbeck took it, because they would not need to be informed of Paul's teaching relative to the Mosaic law. ζηλωταὶ τοῦ ν., cf. Galatians 1:14, Titus 2:14, 1 Peter 3:13 (Malachi 4:2; Malachi 4:2, we have the same phrase, cf. 4Ma 18:12). The extreme party of the Pharisees prided themselves on the title “zealots of the law, zealots of God”; it was a title which St. Paul himself had claimed, Lightfoot, Galatians 1:14.