“ For these causes the Jews caught me in the temple, and went about to kill me. ”
Caught me in the temple - Acts 21:30 . And went about ... - Endeavored to put me to death.
Paul Speaks before Agrippa. It is Agrippa the vassal king, not Festus the representative of the sovereign power, who calls on Paul to speak, and to whom Paul addresses himself throughout, even afte...
caught . Greek. sullambano. See Acts 1:16 . temple . Greek. hieron. See Matthew 23:16 . went about . were attempting. Greek. peiraomai. Only here. kill . Greek. diacheirizomai. See...
− 21. They went about to kill me. He complaineth in this place of the iniquity of his adversaries, that it may thereby appear that their cause and conscience were both evil. − (623) For if...
For these causes the Jews caught me in the temple, and went about to kill me . For these causes the Jews - went about to kill me - These causes may be reduced to four heads: - 1. He had maintained...
The Jews—went about to kill me.— The proper import of the word διαχειρισασθαι is, to kill with their own hands; which was with peculiar propriety used here, as there was reason to apprehend that...
For these causes the Jews caught me in the temple, and went about to kill me. No JFB commentary on this verse.
Defence before Agrippa 1-32. St. Paul before Agrippa. This speech, though in form a defence to the Jews, is really intended by St. Luke to be St. Paul's defence to the world—an apology for his who...
For these causes... — Better, perhaps, on account of these things. With this brief touch, avoiding any elaborate vindication of his own character, St. Paul indicates the real cause of the hostili...
Obedient to His Heavenly Vision Acts 26:12-21 Nowhere else is there such deliverance from the glare and cross-lights of earth as is afforded by a vision of the face of Jesus, brighter than the...
Agrippa intimated to Paul that he might speak, and the apostle spent a moment in introductory words, and then uttered his great apologia, in which a twofold purpose is evident, first, his own defense...
Especially because I know thee to be expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews: wherefore I beseech thee to hear me patiently. (4) My manner of life from my youth, which was at the...
For these causes the Jews caught me in the temple ,.... He means the Asiatic Jews, who finding him in the temple, laid hold on him, and dragged him out of it: and, as he says, went about to kill me;...
For these causes the Jews caught me in the temple, and went about to kill me . Ver. 21. Went about to kill me ] Gr. διαχειρισασθαι, to tear me in pieces, or pull me limb from limb with their own...
For these causes And for no other; the Jews Who have the same inveteracy against the gospel of Jesus that I once had; caught (seized) me in the temple, and went about (attempted) to kill me...
At Agrippa's invitation to him to speak, Paul is fully prepared. He expresses his happiness at being privileged to answer for himself to the king, especially because he knew Agrippa to be an expert i...
Paul's Fifth Defence. 12 Whereupon as I went to Damascus with authority and commission from the chief priests, 13 At midday, O ki...
By violent hands and indirect means, as we see, Acts 21:31 , and as they had done unto our Saviour, Acts 5:30 , where the same word is used.
“Wherefore, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision, but declared both to those of Damascus first and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the country of Judaea, and also to the Gent...
CRITICAL REMARKS Acts 26:19 .—Begins the third part of Paul’s defence, and furnishes the reason for his Gentile mission. Whereupon .—Lit., whence , wherefore, accordingly— i.e. , having been so...
Acts 26 St. Paul's Defence before Agrippa. Observe: I. What is the central truth of the Christian system. It is a very suggestive fact that Festus had got hold of the kernel of the whole subject...
Three times we have in Holy Writ a graphic report of the conversion of Paul. This may be accounted for partly from its being one of the most remarkable events of early sacred history, Paul having had...
Acts 26:1 . Then Paul stretched forth the hand, the usual signal to gain attention; it indicates presence of mind in the speaker, and that his auditory is large. Though the notice was short, the c...
Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Thou art permitted to speak for thyself. Paul before Agrippa Here is all that Christianity ever asked for: an opportunity to speak for itself; and its answer is the...
EXPOSITION Acts 26:1 And for then, A.V.; his for the, A.V.; made his defense for answered for himself, A.V. Agrippa said . It was by the courtesy of Festus that Agrippa thus to...
How Paul had carried out the work of his call:
Acts 21:30 ; Acts 21:31 ; Acts 22:22 ; Acts 23:12-15 ; Acts 25:3
For these things — The apostle now applies all that he had said.