Acts 21:30

Translations

Modern

The whole city was stirred up, and the people rushed together. They seized Paul and dragged him out of the temple, and at once the gates were shut.

Traditional

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.

Literal

And the whole city was provoked, and there was a rushing together of the people. And having laid hold of Paul, they dragged him outside the temple, and immediately the doors were shut.

Latin

Commotaque est civitas tota, et facta est concursio populi. Et apprehendentes Paulum, trahebant eum extra templum: et statim clausæ sunt januæ.

Interlinear

Greek

English

The whole city was stirred up, and the people rushed together. They seized Paul and dragged him out of the temple, and at once the gates were shut.

Notes

Acts 21:30

This supposed defilement of the temple made many of the Jews very angry. They believed the temple had been made unclean by a Greek (non-Jew), so they quickly shut the temple gates.

Acts 21:26–36

The concerns of the Christian leaders were well-founded (21:20–25). When Paul and the other men had almost completed their vow, some Jews from Asia falsely accused Paul and raised a mob against him. They intended to kill Paul, but the Roman commander rescued him.

Theme notes and profiles

Paul (Saul)

Events

Paul arrested in the Templec. AD 54

Related verses

Acts 26:21
For this reason the Jews seized me in the temple courts and tried to kill me.
2 Corinthians 11:26
In my frequent journeys, I have been in danger from rivers and from bandits, in danger from my countrymen and from the Gentiles, in danger in the city and in the country, in danger on the sea and among false brothers,
Acts 16:19–22
When the girl’s owners saw that their hope of making money was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them before the authorities in the marketplace.
Matthew 2:3
When King Herod heard this, he was disturbed, and all Jerusalem with him.
Matthew 21:10
When Jesus had entered Jerusalem, the whole city was stirred and asked, “Who is this?”
2 Kings 11:15
And Jehoiada the priest ordered the commanders of hundreds in charge of the army, “Bring her out between the ranks, and put to the sword anyone who follows her.” For the priest had said, “She must not be put to death in the house of the LORD.”
Acts 19:29
Soon the whole city was in disarray. They rushed together into the theatre, dragging with them Gaius and Aristarchus, Paul’s traveling companions from Macedonia.
Luke 4:29
They got up, drove Him out of the town, and led Him to the brow of the hill on which the town was built, in order to throw Him over the cliff.
Acts 7:57–58
At this they covered their ears, cried out in a loud voice, and rushed together at him.

People

Paul: Apostle to the Gentiles, author of many NT epistles

Glossary

Book of the Acts of the Apostles Chronology of the Bible (New Testament) Paul the Apostle Persecution

Topics

Arrest of Paul Christian Minister: Persecution: Paul Fraternity: The Nazarites, Vows of Mob: At Jerusalem Paul: Enters the Temple Courtyard Paul: Persecutions Endured By Prisoners: Paul Religious Intolerance: The Jewish Leaders in Persecuting Paul Temple: Herod the Great's Temple: Paul Observes the Rights of the Second Temple: No Gentile Allowed to Enter the Inner Courts of Trophimus with Paul in Jerusalem; Made the Occasion of an Attack on Paul

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