The city was moved - Was agitated; was thrown into commotion.
Drew him out of the temple - Under the pretence that he had defiled it. The evident design was to put him to death, Acts 21:31.
The doors were shut - The doors leading into the courts of the temple.
Verse 30. _THEY TOOK PAUL_] They tumultuously seized on him; _and_ _drew him out of the temple_, out of the court of the Israelites, where he was worshipping: _and - the doors were shut_; the doors o...
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...
ALL THE CITY. the whole city. THE PEOPLE RAN, &C. = there was. running together (Greek. _sundrome_. Only here) of the people. TOOK. Greek. _epilambanomai_. See note on Acts 9:27. DREW. were dragging...
_And … ran together_ This is a proof that what James and the elders had stated was true, the whole Jewish community had been "catechized" on the doings of St Paul among the Gentiles. The least spark s...
ARRIVAL AT JERUSALEM. PAUL’S RECEPTION BY THE CHURCH AND BY THE PEOPLE...
ΚΑῚ ἘΓΈΝΕΤΟ ΣΥΝΔΡΟΜῊ ΤΟΥ͂ ΛΑΟΥ͂, _and the people ran together_. So κεὶ ἐγένετο συνδρομὴ ἐν πάσῃ τῇ παρεμβολῇ (Jdt 10:18) of the crowding around Judith as she came into the camp of Holophernes. What o...
_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...
ΈΚΙΝΉΘΗ _aor. ind. pass. от_ ΚΙΝΈΩ (G2795) двигаться, ΈΓΈΝΕΤΟ _aor. ind. med. (dep.), см._ Acts 21:1. ΣΥΝΔΡΟΜΉ (G4890) стечение народа, образование толпы (BAGD). ΈΠΙΛΑΒΌΜΕΝΟΙ _aor. med. (dep.) part...
AND ALL THE CITY WAS MOVED,— The accusation brought against St. Paul, though false, put all the city in a commotion, and brought a vast concourse of people together, who seized upon him in order to ki...
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 27...
And all the city was moved, and the people ran together: and they took Paul, and drew him out of the temple: and forthwith the doors were shut. And all the city was moved, and the people ran together...
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...
THE PEOPLE RAN TOGETHER. — Better, perhaps, _there was a rush of the people._ St. Luke brings into something like a mental juxtaposition the pictures of the tumult at Ephesus and that at Jerusalem. Th...
ἐκινήθη, as in Acts 6:12, _cf._ Acts 24:5. συνδρομὴ τοῦ λ., Judges 3:18; Malachi 3:8; Malach
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...
_The doors were shut, lest the temple should be profaned by Gentiles entering into it. (Witham) --- The temple was an asylum, but not for those men who were justly pursued. Hence the Jews looking upon...
PAUL ARRESTED 27-30. You see plainly that this affair was diabolical, mobocratic and unapologizable from the beginning, as even the most radical Jews fully approved what Paul was doing. The whole aff...
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...
_IN JERUSALEM_ ‘And all the city was moved.’ Acts 21:30 St. Paul is now at Jerusalem. What changes had taken place during the quarter of a century which had elapsed since his first introduction to...
− 30._And the city was moved. _We see in this place the vanity of the common people, which count Paul a condemned man before ever they hear him. Whereas the city is moved about godliness, − (490) “it...
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 ALL THE CITY WAS MOVED, AND THE PEOPLE RAN TOGETHER,.... The outcry in the temple reached the ears of some that were without, and these alarmed others; so that the report of a disturbance in the t...
And all the city was moved, and the people ran together: and they took Paul, and drew him out of the temple: and forthwith the doors were shut. Ver. 30. _The doors were shut_] That he might not there...
_And all the city was moved_ Was in an uproar. Although the people had little holiness themselves, yet they had a great veneration for the temple; and when they heard of its being polluted, they were...
AND ALL THE CITY WAS MOVED, AND THE PEOPLE RAN TOGETHER; AND THEY TOOK PAUL, AND DREW HIM OUT OF THE TEMPLE; AND FORTHWITH THE DOORS WERE SHUT. Paul here showed that the spirit of Christ lived in him,...
The beginning of the riot:...
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 ALL THE CITY WAS DISTURBED; AND THE PEOPLE RAN TOGETHER, SEIZED PAUL, AND DRAGGED HIM OUT OF THE TEMPLE; AND IMMEDIATELY THE DOORS WERE SHUT. 1. Now the whole city of Jerusalem is in an uproar....
"And all the city was aroused" The whole city is in an uproar, compare with the mob scene in Acts 19:29. "They dragged him out of the temple" They treat Paul as they would an intruding Gentile and qui...
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...
AND ALL THE CITY WAS MOVED; there was a general concourse from all parts. _Tantum religio poterat, _ no such heats as such are which are moved about religion; whilst _the wisdom that is from above, is...
Acts 21:30 And G5037 all G3650 city G4172 disturbed G2795 (G5681) and G2532 people G2992 together G1096 ...
‘And all the city was moved, and the people ran together, and they laid hold on Paul, and dragged him out of the temple, and straightway the doors were shut.' The effect of the malicious cries of thes...
PAUL PROVES HIS TRUE DEDICATION IN JERUSALEM AND HIS CONFORMITY WITH THE LAW AND DOES NOTHING THAT IS WORTHY OF DEATH BUT THE DOORS OF THE TEMPLE ARE CLOSED AGAINST HIM (21:17-30)....
Acts 21:30. AND ALL THE CITY WAS MOVED, AND THE PEOPLE RAN TOGETHER. The rumour quickly reached the quarter of ‘Zion' that the notorious Paul had been caught in an act of sacrilege in the temple, and...
ALL THE CITY WAS SHAKEN (εκινηθη η πολις ολη). First aorist passive of κινεω, common verb for violent motion and emotion. See also Acts 24:5 where the word is used by Tertullus of Paul as the stirr...
DREW See (Acts 14:19); (Acts 16:19)....
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...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 21:30 The shutting of the GATES was probably to prevent further defiling of the sanctuary. ⇐...
_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...
2 Corinthians 11:26; Acts 16:19; Acts 16:20; Acts 19:29; Acts 26:21
Drew him out of the temple. Better, as Rev., dragged [ε ι λ κ ο ν]. Out of the sacred enclosure and down the steps to the outer court, as they would not defile the temple proper with blood. The doors...
And immediately the gates were shut — Both to prevent any farther violation of the temple; and to prevent Paul's taking sanctuary at the horns of the altar....