Acts 21:4

ἀνευρόντες τοὺς μ.: more than simply to find, quærendo reperire, Blass; “having found out,” as colloquially “having looked up”; only in Luke, cf. Luke 2:16, but in middle, Malachi 3:14; Malachi 3:14. τοὺς μαθ.: W.H [349] The article indicates that the existence of the disciples was known, but it was difficult to find out their whereabouts in a great town, cf. Acts 15:3; Acts 15:41. ἐπεμείναμεν, see on Acts 10:48. ἡμέρας ἑπτά : the period would at all events enable Paul to enjoy a first day of the week with the Church. Apparently he and his went on in the same ship, Acts 21:6, evidently it was a trading vessel of the larger size, as it took this time to unload; on the genuineness of the narration here see Salmon, Introd., p. 300. διὰ τοῦ Π.: there it no contradiction between this statement and St. Paul's assertion that he was proceeding to Jerusalem under the same divine guidance. That the prophets at Tyre should foresee the Apostle's danger was only in accordance with his own words in Acts 20:23, and their affectionate regard for him might well prompt them to dissuade him from such perilous risks. There is therefore no occasion to suppose that the clause has been interpolated into the “We” source. Hilgenfeld refers οἵτινες … Ἱερ. (Acts 21:4), as also the whole of Acts 21:9, τούτῳ δὲ … προφ. to his “author to Theophilus,” on the ground that this writer had already spoken of Paul's tribulations as awaiting him in city by city, Acts 20:23, and that the notices in Acts 21:4; Acts 21:9 here are added by him in confirmation. But Hilgenfeld (with Clemen and Jüngst) retains Acts 21:10-14, the episode of Agabus, as belonging to the “We” source, and sees a fitness in the prophecy of Agabus foretelling, after the manner of the O.T. prophets, in the last station before Jerusalem, the imprisonment of the Apostle, whilst Paul in spite of all entreaties is unmoved in his determination. But (1) it is quite arbitrary to refer the whole speech at Miletus (see above, chap. 20) to the “author to Theophilus,” and (2) although it was quite fitting that the warning of danger should be more vivid on its approach, yet one fails to see why the more definite symbolical act of Agabus should exclude previous intimations of danger on the part of affectionate friends speaking of the Holy Ghost. In Acts 21:9 nothing is said as to the prophecies of the daughter of Philip and Paul's imprisonment, but see below.

[349] Westcott and Hort's The New Testament in Greek: Critical Text and Notes.