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Selected Verse: Acts 21:30 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Ac 21:30 |
King James |
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. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| took Paul, and drew him out of the temple; and forthwith the doors were shut--that the murder they meant to perpetrate might not pollute that holy place. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
The city was moved - Was agitated; was thrown into commotion.
Drew him out of the temple - Under the pretence that he had defiled it. The evident design was to put him to death, Act 21:31.
The doors were shut - The doors leading into the courts of the temple. |
| The Scofield Bible Commentary, by Cyrus Ingerson Scofield, [1917] |
drew
See (Act 14:19); (Act 16:19). |
| Vincent's Word Studies, by Marvin R. Vincent [1886] |
Drew him out of the temple
Better, as Rev., dragged (εἷλκον). Out of the sacred enclosure and down the steps to the outer court, as they would not defile the temple proper with blood.
The doors were shut
Between the inner and outer courts. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| And immediately the gates were shut - Both to prevent any farther violation of the temple; and to prevent Paul's taking sanctuary at the horns of the altar. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| They took Paul - They tumultuously seized on him; and drew him out of the temple, out of the court of the Israelites, where he was worshipping: and - the doors were shut; the doors of the court of the Gentiles, probably to prevent Paul from getting any succor from his friends in the city; for their whole proceedings show that they purposed to murder him: they brought him out of the court of the Israelites, that court being peculiarly holy, that it might not be defiled by his blood; and they shut the court of the Gentiles, that they might have the opportunity unmolested of killing him in that place; for the court of the Gentiles was reckoned to be less holy than that of the Israelites. |
31 And as they went about to kill him, tidings came unto the chief captain of the band, that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.
19 And when her masters saw that the hope of their gains was gone, they caught Paul and Silas, and drew them into the marketplace unto the rulers,
19 And there came thither certain Jews from Antioch and Iconium, who persuaded the people, and, having stoned Paul, drew him out of the city, supposing he had been dead.