Acts 26:21

For these causes the Jews caught me in the temple, and went about to kill me.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Caught me in the temple - Acts 21:30 . And went about ... - Endeavored to put me to death.
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

caught . Greek. sullambano. See Acts 1:16 . temple . Greek. hieron. See Matthew 23:16 . went about . were attempting. Greek. peiraomai....
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

− 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 cau...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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....
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

For these causes... — Better, perhaps, on account of these things. With this brief touch, avoiding any elaborate vindication of his own character...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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)...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

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 i...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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 th...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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, es...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Paul's Fifth Defence. 12 Whereupon as I went to Damascus with authority and commi...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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.
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

“Wherefore, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision, but declared both to those of Damascus first and at Jerusalem, and througho...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL REMARKS Acts 26:19 .—Begins the third part of Paul’s defence, and furnishes the reason for his Gentile mission. Whereupon .—Lit., when...
Sermon Bible Commentary

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 Fest...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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 remarkab...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Acts 26:1 . Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Thou art permitted to speak for thyself. Then Paul stretched forth the hand, and answered for himself: I...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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 aud...
The Biblical Illustrator

Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Thou art permitted to speak for thyself. Paul before Agrippa Here is all that Christianity ever asked for: an oppo...
The Biblical Illustrator

Whereupon, O King Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision. The heavenly vision This is Paul’s account of the decisive moment on...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

How Paul had carried out the work of his call:
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

For these causes the Jews caught me in the Temple, and went about to kill me.
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Acts 21:30 ; Acts 21:31 ; Acts 22:22 ; Acts 23:12-15 ; Acts 25:3
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

For these things — The apostle now applies all that he had said.

²¹ For these causes the Jews caught me in the temple, and went about to kill me.

Related Commentaries of Acts 26:21

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sermon Bible Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Acts 26:21