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Text -- Acts 21:23-40 (NET)

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21:23 So do what we tell you: We have four men who have taken a vow; 21:24 take them and purify yourself along with them and pay their expenses, so that they may have their heads shaved. Then everyone will know there is nothing in what they have been told about you, but that you yourself live in conformity with the law. 21:25 But regarding the Gentiles who have believed, we have written a letter, having decided that they should avoid meat that has been sacrificed to idols and blood and what has been strangled and sexual immorality.” 21:26 Then Paul took the men the next day, and after he had purified himself along with them, he went to the temple and gave notice of the completion of the days of purification, when the sacrifice would be offered for each of them. 21:27 When the seven days were almost over, the Jews from the province of Asia who had seen him in the temple area stirred up the whole crowd and seized him, 21:28 shouting, “Men of Israel, help! This is the man who teaches everyone everywhere against our people, our law, and this sanctuary! Furthermore he has brought Greeks into the inner courts of the temple and made this holy place ritually unclean!” 21:29 (For they had seen Trophimus the Ephesian in the city with him previously, and they assumed Paul had brought him into the inner temple courts.) 21:30 The whole city was stirred up, and the people rushed together. They seized Paul and dragged him out of the temple courts, and immediately the doors were shut. 21:31 While they were trying to kill him, a report was sent up to the commanding officer of the cohort that all Jerusalem was in confusion. 21:32 He immediately took soldiers and centurions and ran down to the crowd. When they saw the commanding officer and the soldiers, they stopped beating Paul. 21:33 Then the commanding officer came up and arrested him and ordered him to be tied up with two chains; he then asked who he was and what he had done. 21:34 But some in the crowd shouted one thing, and others something else, and when the commanding officer was unable unable to find out the truth because of the disturbance, he ordered Paul to be brought into the barracks. 21:35 When he came to the steps, Paul had to be carried by the soldiers because of the violence of the mob, 21:36 for a crowd of people followed them, screaming, “Away with him!” 21:37 As Paul was about to be brought into the barracks, he said to the commanding officer, “May I say something to you?” The officer replied, “Do you know Greek? 21:38 Then you’re not that Egyptian who started a rebellion and led the four thousand men of the ‘Assassins’ into the wilderness some time ago?” 21:39 Paul answered, “I am a Jew from Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of an important city. Please allow me to speak to the people.” 21:40 When the commanding officer had given him permission, Paul stood on the steps and gestured to the people with his hand. When they had become silent, he addressed them in Aramaic,
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics

Names, People and Places:
 · Asia A Roman province on the west side of Asia Minor.
 · Cilicia a region of SE Asia Minor
 · Egyptian descendants of Mizraim
 · Ephesians the inhabitants of Ephesus
 · Gentile a non-Jewish person
 · Greek the language used by the people of Greece
 · Greek Language the language used by the people of Greece
 · Hebrew Language an ancient Jewish language used in the Old Testament
 · Israel a citizen of Israel.,a member of the nation of Israel
 · Jerusalem the capital city of Israel,a town; the capital of Israel near the southern border of Benjamin
 · Jews the people descended from Israel
 · Paul a man from Tarsus who persecuted the church but became a missionary and writer of 13 Epistles
 · Tarsus a capital city of the Roman province of Cilicia; the birthplace of Paul
 · Trophimus a Gentile christian man from Ephesus who went with Paul to Jerusalem.


Dictionary Themes and Topics: Paul | John | LYCIA | Synagogue | Minister | Prisoners | ANTONIA | Claudius Lysias | Trophimus | Claudius | TERTULLUS | ACTS OF THE APOSTLES, 13-OUTLINE | Fraternity | Lysias, Claudius | PAUL, THE APOSTLE, 5 | Temple | Soldiers | Bigotry | Opinion, Public | Purification | more
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NET Notes: Act 21:23 On the term for “vow,” see BDAG 416 s.v. εὐχή 2.

NET Notes: Act 21:24 The law refers to the law of Moses.

NET Notes: Act 21:25 What has been strangled. That is, to refrain from eating animals that had been killed without having the blood drained from them. According to the Mos...

NET Notes: Act 21:26 Grk “for each one.”

NET Notes: Act 21:27 Grk “and laid hands on.”

NET Notes: Act 21:28 Has brought Greeks…unclean. Note how the issue is both religious and ethnic, showing a different attitude by the Jews. A Gentile was not permitt...

NET Notes: Act 21:29 This is a parenthetical note by the author. The note explains the cause of the charge and also notes that it was false.

NET Notes: Act 21:30 Grk “out of the temple.” See the note on the word “temple” in v. 28.

NET Notes: Act 21:31 BDAG 953 s.v. συγχέω has “Pass. w. act.force be in confusion…ὅλη συγχ ...

NET Notes: Act 21:32 The mob stopped beating Paul because they feared the Romans would arrest them for disturbing the peace and for mob violence. They would let the Roman ...

NET Notes: Act 21:33 Grk “and what it is”; this has been simplified to “what.”

NET Notes: Act 21:34 Or “the headquarters.” BDAG 775 s.v. παρεμβολή 2 has “barracks/headquarters of the Rom...

NET Notes: Act 21:35 This refers to mob violence (BDAG 175 s.v. βία b).

NET Notes: Act 21:36 The word “them” is not in the Greek text but is implied. Direct objects were often omitted in Greek when clear from the context, but must ...

NET Notes: Act 21:37 “Do you know Greek?” Paul as an educated rabbi was bilingual. Paul’s request in Greek allowed the officer to recognize that Paul was...

NET Notes: Act 21:38 Grk “before these days.”

NET Notes: Act 21:39 Grk “I beg you.”

NET Notes: Act 21:40 Grk “in the Hebrew dialect, saying.” This refers to the Aramaic spoken in Palestine in the 1st century (BDAG 270 s.v. ῾Εβ&...

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