Acts 21:30 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ 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. ”

• Acts 21:30 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  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 ....

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• Acts 21:30 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  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 infuri...

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• Acts 21:30 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  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...

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• Acts 21:30 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  − 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, −...

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• Acts 21:30 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  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. They took Paul - They tumultuously seized on him; and d...

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• Acts 21:30 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  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...

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• Acts 21:30 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  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 toget...

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• Acts 21:30 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  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,...

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• Acts 21:30 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  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....

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• Acts 21:30 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Facing a Bigoted Mob Acts 21:27-40 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...

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• Acts 21:30 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  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 befo...

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• Acts 21:30 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  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 i...

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• Acts 21:30 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

  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 introductio...

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• Acts 21:30 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  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 th...

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• Acts 21:30 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  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 th...

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• Acts 21:30 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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...

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• Acts 21:30 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  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 b...

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• Acts 21:30 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Paul Seized in the Temple; The Tumult at Jerusalem.       27 And when the seven days were almost ended, the Jews which were of Asia, when...

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• Acts 21:30 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  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,...

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• Acts 21:30 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  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).

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• Acts 21:30 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  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 ablution...

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• Acts 21:30 - Scofield Reference Notes

  drew See ( Acts 14:19 ); ( Acts 16:19 ).

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• Acts 21:30 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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 pa...

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• Acts 21:30 - The Biblical Illustrator

  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 21:27-30 )....

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• Acts 21:30 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  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 C...

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• Acts 21:30 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The beginning of the riot:

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• Acts 21:30 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  2 Corinthians 11:26 ; Acts 16:19 ; Acts 16:20-22 ; Acts 19:29 ; Acts 26:21 ; Acts 7:57 ; Acts 7:58 ; Luke 4:29 ; Matthew 2:3 ; Matthew 21:10

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• Acts 21:30 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  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.

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