Acts 21:28 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Teacheth—against—the law, and this place:— Every thing contrary to the law would be justly interpreted as contrary to the temple which was so evidently supported by a regard to it: but perhaps St. Paul might have declared that the destruction of the temple was approaching; which declaration we know was charged on Stephen as a great crime, ch. Acts 6:14. They urged further against St. Paul, that he brought Greeks, or Gentiles, into the temple. Now it is universally acknowledged, that any stranger might worship in that which was called "the court of the Gentiles;" but these zealots, without any proof but an uncertain conjecture and rumour, imagined that St. Paul had brought some uncircumcised Gentiles into the inner part of the court, which was appropriated to the people of Israel, and notified as such by Greek and Latin inscriptions on several of the pillars which stood in the wall that separated it, viz. "No foreigner must enter here."If any person violated this law, he was liable to be put to death. But it is to be observed by the way, that a proselyte, who by circumcision had declared his submission to, and acceptance of the whole Jewish religion, was no longer looked upon as a foreigner, but as one naturalized,—and so a fellow-citizen.