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Who said, Can you speak Greek?...">Acts 21:37-40</a></span> He requesteth, and is permitted, to speak to the people.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span> <span class="bld">Were gotten from them; </span> had parted with them, as dearest friends and relations do one from the other, with much difficulty and reluctance. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="ital">Coos; </span> an island in the Mediterranean Sea, nigh unto Crete, where Hippocrates and Apelles are said to have been born. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="ital">Rhodes; </span> another island in the same sea, of great fame for the Colossus, or vast image of brass, which was there, accounted one of the wonders of the world. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="ital">Patara; </span> a haven town of Lycia, and its metropolis. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="2"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/acts/21-2.htm">Acts 21:2</a></div><div class="verse">And finding a ship sailing over unto Phenicia, we went aboard, and set forth.</div> <span class="bld">Sailing over unto Phenicia; </span> whose master and mariners intended such a voyage. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">Phenicia; </span> a country in Syria, situate nigh the sea, and bordering upon Palestine, whose chief city was Tyre. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="3"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/acts/21-3.htm">Acts 21:3</a></div><div class="verse">Now when we had discovered Cyprus, we left it on the left hand, and sailed into Syria, and landed at Tyre: for there the ship was to unlade her burden.</div> <span class="bld">Cyprus; </span> another island in the Mediterranean. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">Unlade her burden; </span> of goods and merchandise which she had taken in at Ephesus. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="4"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/acts/21-4.htm">Acts 21:4</a></div><div class="verse">And finding disciples, we tarried there seven days: who said to Paul through the Spirit, that he should not go up to Jerusalem.</div> <span class="bld">Seven days; </span> they tarried the rather so long, that they might worship and serve the Lord on his day together. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">Through the Spirit; </span> by the Spirit of prophecy they foretold his sufferings at Jerusalem, which afterward accordingly befell unto him; and they, being ignorant of his undertaking that journey at God’s command, out of commiseration and pity dissuade St. Paul from going to such a place, where they foresaw that he should suffer so much: and this, it is said, they did <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">through the Spirit, </span> because they had that foreknowledge of all his sufferings from the Spirit; and knowing but in part, being ignorant of that special command Paul had had to go to Jerusalem, they did, according to what they knew, dissuade Paul from that journey. But, they knowing that their prophecy about St. Paul’s sufferings must be fulfilled, and the Spirit by which they spake could not err or be mistaken, how came they to dissuade St. Paul from going to Jerusalem? It may be answered, that they might think this prediction of his sufferings to be only conditional, in case he went to Jerusalem; as David was told, that the men of Keilah would deliver him to Saul, <span class="bld"><a href="/1_samuel/23-11.htm" title="Will the men of Keilah deliver me up into his hand? will Saul come down, as your servant has heard? O LORD God of Israel, I beseech you, tell your servant. And the LORD said, He will come down.">1 Samuel 23:11</a>,12</span>; that is, in case he had trusted himself amongst them. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="5"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/acts/21-5.htm">Acts 21:5</a></div><div class="verse">And when we had accomplished those days, we departed and went our way; and they all brought us on our way, with wives and children, till <i>we were</i> out of the city: and we kneeled down on the shore, and prayed.</div> <span class="bld">They all brought us on our way; </span> to show their greater respect unto him, being loth to part with him so long as it was possible for them to enjoy him; so that they did not despise his temptation that was in the flesh, <span class="bld"><a href="/galatians/4-14.htm" title="And my temptation which was in my flesh you despised not, nor rejected; but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.">Galatians 4:14</a></span> but it is truly strange what follows, that he was received by them <span class="ital">as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus. Kneeled down on the shore; </span> this the Jews on extraordinary occasions were wont to do, whilst the temple itself were standing, viz. make every place a place of prayer in such a case, <span class="bld"><a href="/acts/20-36.htm" title="And when he had thus spoken, he kneeled down, and prayed with them all.">Acts 20:36</a></span>. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="6"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/acts/21-6.htm">Acts 21:6</a></div><div class="verse">And when we had taken our leave one of another, we took ship; and they returned home again.</div> <span class="bld">Had taken our leave one of another; </span> as <span class="bld"><a href="/acts/20-1.htm" title="And after the uproar was ceased, Paul called to him the disciples, and embraced them, and departed for to go into Macedonia.">Acts 20:1</a></span>, embracing one another at their parting. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="7"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/acts/21-7.htm">Acts 21:7</a></div><div class="verse">And when we had finished <i>our</i> course from Tyre, we came to Ptolemais, and saluted the brethren, and abode with them one day.</div> <span class="bld">We came to Ptolemais; </span> so far forth as to Ptolemais, a city in Phenicia, so called from one of the Ptolemies, king of Egypt; and is thought to be the same with Accho, mentioned <span class="bld"><a href="/judges/1-31.htm" title="Neither did Asher drive out the inhabitants of Accho, nor the inhabitants of Zidon, nor of Ahlab, nor of Achzib, nor of Helbah, nor of Aphik, nor of Rehob:">Judges 1:31</a></span>, which ancient name is yet retained in the Syriac translation. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="8"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/acts/21-8.htm">Acts 21:8</a></div><div class="verse">And the next <i>day</i> we that were of Paul's company departed, and came unto Caesarea: and we entered into the house of Philip the evangelist, which was <i>one</i> of the seven; and abode with him.</div> <span class="bld">Caesarea; </span> that which was called Caesarea Stratonis, to distinguish it from Caesarea Philippi, at the foot of Mount Libanus, as also from another city of that name in Cappadocia; they having been all so called in honour of Caesar, to flatter and perpetuate that family. The Caesarea here spoken of was in Palestine, and is mentioned <span class="bld"><a href="/acts/10-1.htm" title="There was a certain man in Caesarea called Cornelius, a centurion of the band called the Italian band,">Acts 10:1</a> 18:22</span>. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">The evangelist; </span> whose office and charge it was to publish the gospel, which Timothy is exhorted to do, <span class="bld"><a href="/2_timothy/4-5.htm" title="But watch you in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of your ministry.">2 Timothy 4:5</a></span>. This office is placed between that of an apostle and of a pastor and teacher, <span class="bld"><a href="/ephesians/4-11.htm" title="And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;">Ephesians 4:11</a></span>, and was not so confined to a certain place or people as the latter of these were. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">One of the seven; </span> of the seven deacons; of which see <span class="bld"><a href="/acts/6-5.htm" title="And the saying pleased the whole multitude: and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Ghost, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas a proselyte of Antioch:">Acts 6:5</a></span>. Which office of a deacon Philip having well discharged, did purchase to himself this good degree, as <span class="bld"><a href="/1_timothy/3-13.htm" title="For they that have used the office of a deacon well purchase to themselves a good degree, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.">1 Timothy 3:13</a></span>. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="9"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/acts/21-9.htm">Acts 21:9</a></div><div class="verse">And the same man had four daughters, virgins, which did prophesy.</div> <span class="bld">Virgins; </span> by their father’s and their own voluntary determination, as <span class="bld"><a href="/1_corinthians/7-37.htm" title="Nevertheless he that stands steadfast in his heart, having no necessity, but has power over his own will, and has so decreed in his heart that he will keep his virgin, does well.">1 Corinthians 7:37</a></span>; neither is it said whether they continued in that state, but they were so. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">Which did prophesy; </span> not by expounding the prophecies or word of God, for no woman is suffered to teach publicly, <span class="bld"><a href="/1_corinthians/14-34.htm" title="Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted to them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience as also said the law.">1 Corinthians 14:34</a> <a href="/1_timothy/2-12.htm" title="But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.">1 Timothy 2:12</a></span>; but rather foretelling things to come, which gift God did not debar that sex from; especially it having been promised, <span class="bld"><a href="/joel/2-28.htm" title="And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit on all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:">Joel 2:28</a></span>, and in part fulfilled before, in <span class="bld"><a href="/acts/2-17.htm" title="And it shall come to pass in the last days, said God, I will pour out of my Spirit on all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:">Acts 2:17</a></span>; by which God would show the enlargement of his mercies, and plenty of his Spirit, reserved for the times of the gospel. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="10"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/acts/21-10.htm">Acts 21:10</a></div><div class="verse">And as we tarried <i>there</i> many days, there came down from Judaea a certain prophet, named Agabus.</div> Of whom mention is made, <span class="bld"><a href="/acts/11-28.htm" title="And there stood up one of them named Agabus, and signified by the Spirit that there should be great dearth throughout all the world: which came to pass in the days of Claudius Caesar.">Acts 11:28</a></span>; of whose prophecy they could not be ignorant, by reason of the great collection which, on that account, was made for the poor at Jerusalem. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="11"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/acts/21-11.htm">Acts 21:11</a></div><div class="verse">And when he was come unto us, he took Paul's girdle, and bound his own hands and feet, and said, Thus saith the Holy Ghost, So shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man that owneth this girdle, and shall deliver <i>him</i> into the hands of the Gentiles.</div> <span class="bld">Took Paul’s girdle; </span> it was ordinary amongst the prophets to confirm, or at least to exemplify, their prophecies by outward signs and symbols, as <span class="bld"><a href="/isaiah/20-2.htm" title="At the same time spoke the LORD by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go and loose the sackcloth from off your loins, and put off your shoe from your foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot.">Isaiah 20:2</a> <a href="/jeremiah/13-1.htm" title="Thus said the LORD to me, Go and get you a linen girdle, and put it on your loins, and put it not in water.">Jeremiah 13:1</a> <a href="/ezekiel/12-5.htm" title="Dig you through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby.">Ezekiel 12:5</a></span>. But that of <span class="bld"><a href="/jeremiah/27-2.htm" title="Thus said the LORD to me; Make you bonds and yokes, and put them on your neck,">Jeremiah 27:2</a></span>, is a parallel unto this; where the prophet is commanded to make bonds and yokes, and to put them upon his neck, to foreshow the subjection of all those nations unto Nebuchadnezzar. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">Thus saith the Holy Ghost; </span> none of all the sufferings foreshown concerning St. Paul, or others of God’s children and servants, but are ordered by God, who knows them altogether; and they came not out of the dust, or by casualty, or chance, so as not to have been the matter of God’s foreknowledge and counsel, <span class="bld"><a href="/ephesians/1-11.htm" title="In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who works all things after the counsel of his own will:">Ephesians 1:11</a></span>. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">The Gentiles; </span> the Roman powers at Jerusalem, and afterwards at Rome. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="12"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/acts/21-12.htm">Acts 21:12</a></div><div class="verse">And when we heard these things, both we, and they of that place, besought him not to go up to Jerusalem.</div> <span class="bld">They of that place; </span> the converts or believers that were in Caesarea, pitying him, and having a tender affection for him: <span class="bld">See Poole on "<a href="/acts/21-4.htm" title="And finding disciples, we tarried there seven days: who said to Paul through the Spirit, that he should not go up to Jerusalem.">Acts 21:4</a>"</span>. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">Besought him</span> with tears, so earnest were they, as in the following verse. <span class="ital">{see <span class="bld"><a href="/acts/21-13.htm" title="Then Paul answered, What mean you to weep and to break my heart? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.">Acts 21:13</a></span>}</span> <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="13"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/acts/21-13.htm">Acts 21:13</a></div><div class="verse">Then Paul answered, What mean ye to weep and to break mine heart? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.</div> <span class="bld">What mean ye to weep, and to break mine heart?</span> a strange strife, who should overcome by loving most, as in that betwixt David and Jonathan, <span class="bld"><a href="/1_samuel/20-41.htm" title="And as soon as the lad was gone, David arose out of a place toward the south, and fell on his face to the ground, and bowed himself three times: and they kissed one another, and wept one with another, until David exceeded.">1 Samuel 20:41</a>,42</span>. This undaunted champion, who did not seem to feel any of his own afflictions and miseries, yet grieves for the grief and sympathy of others, and bears a double weight in his burdens; one directly and immediately from them, as lying upon himself; the other mediately, as recoiling from others (who suffered with him) unto him again. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">But also to die; </span> as Christ’s love for us was stronger than death, <span class="bld"><a href="/songs/8-6.htm" title="Set me as a seal on your heart, as a seal on your arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which has a most vehement flame.">Song of Solomon 8:6</a></span>, so must our love be to him again, or it is not of the same nature with his, nor begotten by it. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">For the name of the Lord Jesus; </span> his truth, and glory. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="14"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/acts/21-14.htm">Acts 21:14</a></div><div class="verse">And when he would not be persuaded, we ceased, saying, The will of the Lord be done.</div> <span class="bld">We ceased; </span> as having done their utmost, and what became them. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">Saying, The will of the Lord be done; </span> they commit the event unto God: thus we pray daily, that God’s will may be done, <span class="bld"><a href="/matthew/6-10.htm" title="Your kingdom come, Your will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.">Matthew 6:10</a> <a href="/luke/11-2.htm" title="And he said to them, When you pray, say, Our Father which are in heaven, Hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done, as in heaven, so in earth.">Luke 11:2</a></span>; and thus our Saviour, not only by his precept, but by his example, hath taught us, <span class="bld"><a href="/matthew/26-42.htm" title="He went away again the second time, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if this cup may not pass away from me, except I drink it, your will be done.">Matthew 26:42</a> <a href="/luke/22-42.htm" title="Saying, Father, if you be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but yours, be done.">Luke 22:42</a></span>; and when God’s will is done, our will is done also, if the mind and spirit be in us that was in Christ, <span class="bld"><a href="/philippians/2-5.htm" title="Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:">Philippians 2:5</a></span>, and otherwise we are none of his, <span class="bld"><a href="/revelation/8-9.htm" title="And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.">Revelation 8:9</a></span>. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="15"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/acts/21-15.htm">Acts 21:15</a></div><div class="verse">And after those days we took up our carriages, and went up to Jerusalem.</div> As they do pack up that are to remove to another house or place, not intending to come thither any more again; this also did show their readiness of mind to endure and suffer all things, as loss of relations and friends, and all accommodations, for Christ. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="16"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/acts/21-16.htm">Acts 21:16</a></div><div class="verse">There went with us also <i>certain</i> of the disciples of Caesarea, and brought with them one Mnason of Cyprus, an old disciple, with whom we should lodge.</div> Either this Mnason was in their company, or rather they were brought by the disciples of Caesarea to the house of this Mnason, who was one of them that was converted when Paul and Barnabas were at Cyprus, <span class="bld"><a href="/acts/13-4.htm" title="So they, being sent forth by the Holy Ghost, departed to Seleucia; and from there they sailed to Cyprus.">Acts 13:4</a></span>; and lodgings being scarce at Jerusalem, (when all the males were to appear there in those three annual solemnities), it was no small kindness to be provided for by him. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="17"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/acts/21-17.htm">Acts 21:17</a></div><div class="verse">And when we were come to Jerusalem, the brethren received us gladly.</div> It is thought, that by <span class="ital">brethren</span> in this place, and <span class="bld"><a href="/acts/21-7.htm" title="And when we had finished our course from Tyre, we came to Ptolemais, and saluted the brothers, and stayed with them one day.">Acts 21:7</a></span>, they are meant, who, being believers, were formed into a church with its several officers, and that they are called <span class="ital">disciples</span> only, <span class="bld"><a href="/acts/21-4.htm" title="And finding disciples, we tarried there seven days: who said to Paul through the Spirit, that he should not go up to Jerusalem.">Acts 21:4</a></span>, who, living dispersed, and in smaller numbers, could not constitute such a church; but surely whatsoever there is of privilege and happiness in this spiritual fraternity, that truly catholic charity that was in the apostles and other holy men, would not so confine it, as to exelude any from enjoying of it, who did not exclude themselves by greater crimes than their paucity in number, or the consequences of that, could amount unto. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="18"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/acts/21-18.htm">Acts 21:18</a></div><div class="verse">And the <i>day</i> following Paul went in with us unto James; and all the elders were present.</div> <span class="bld">James, </span> one of the apostles, though some think that he was a kinsman of our Saviour’s, and at this time bishop of Jerusalem. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">Elders; </span> as in <span class="bld"><a href="/acts/15-6.htm" title="And the apostles and elders came together for to consider of this matter.">Acts 15:6</a>,23</span>, not so called for their age, but dignity or place in the church. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="19"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/acts/21-19.htm">Acts 21:19</a></div><div class="verse">And when he had saluted them, he declared particularly what things God had wrought among the Gentiles by his ministry.</div> God had so done those marvellous works, that they ought to be had in remembrance; and this was said by the apostle, that God might not lose the glory, nor the church the benefit, of any of those great things which God had wrought: otherwise, St. Paul acknowledges that he was <span class="ital">the least of the apostles, </span> and <span class="ital">not meet to be</span> <span class="ital">called an apostle, </span><span class="bldvs"> <a href="/1_corinthians/15-9.htm" title="For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.">1 Corinthians 15:9</a></span>; and all his power was ministerial, he was only an instrument in God’s hand, to be acted by him, as <span class="bld"><a href="/acts/20-24.htm" title="But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear to myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.">Acts 20:24</a></span>. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="20"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/acts/21-20.htm">Acts 21:20</a></div><div class="verse">And when they heard <i>it</i>, they glorified the Lord, and said unto him, Thou seest, brother, how many thousands of Jews there are which believe; and they are all zealous of the law:</div> <span class="bld">Glorified the Lord; </span> acknowledging all in that great work of the conversion of the Gentiles to have been from God; and that Paul that had planted, and Apollos that had watered, were nothing, <span class="bld"><a href="/1_corinthians/3-6.htm" title="I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.">1 Corinthians 3:6</a>,7</span>. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">Thousands of Jews; </span> tens of thousands, as the word does usually signify; a definite for an indefinite number, signifying very many: and considering out of what small beginnings, and by what despicable means, and all within the space of about five and twenty years, this grain of mustard seed had spread itself; and add to this, that they were Jews, that obstinate and prejudiced generation, who are here spoken of, and they were then so many, so wonderfully many, who believed. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">All zealous of the law, </span> of ceremonies, and concerning forbidden meats, &c. For the decree of the apostles, <span class="bld"><a href="/acts/15-29.htm" title="That you abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if you keep yourselves, you shall do well. Fare you well.">Acts 15:29</a></span>, concerning these things, did only respect such as were converted from paganism to the faith of Christ; and the Jews that were converted before the dispersion by Adrian, the Roman emperor, many years after this time, did not thoroughly understand their freedom from that law, but were under the burden of it, as appears by several ecclesiastical writers. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="21"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/acts/21-21.htm">Acts 21:21</a></div><div class="verse">And they are informed of thee, that thou teachest all the Jews which are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, saying that they ought not to circumcise <i>their</i> children, neither to walk after the customs.</div> <span class="bld">Informed of thee; </span> instructed or catechised concerning thee; the zealots had made it their business to instil such aspersions and odious reflections against Paul, as if their accusations had been the fundamental truths of their religion. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">Moses; </span> the ceremonial law, given by his ministry. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">To walk, </span> to live, to act in their course of life, <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">after the customs</span> of their fathers, or the rituals of Moses. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="22"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/acts/21-22.htm">Acts 21:22</a></div><div class="verse">What is it therefore? the multitude must needs come together: for they will hear that thou art come.</div> <span class="bld">What is it therefore?</span> It cannot be otherwise; or, what else remains to be done? <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">The multitude must needs come together; </span> all the faithful must meet; for the magistrates then being pagan, and enemies both to the church and the gospel; in matters of great moment, especially when there was any fear of a schism, the whole multitude of believers were gathered together to consult about it. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="23"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/acts/21-23.htm">Acts 21:23</a></div><div class="verse">Do therefore this that we say to thee: We have four men which have a vow on them;</div> Vows were either, first, such as men did make in gratitude for any deliverance they had received, as from sickness, storms, or any imminent dangers: or, secondly, to enable them the better to serve God on any occasion; and then they were bound to keep themselves from all those things which were forbidden to the Nazarite, as wine and strong drink, and to nourish their hair, as the Nazarites were bound to do. This vow they made for a certain time, and not perpetual: the law concerning it you may see, in <span class="bld"><a href="/context/numbers/6-2.htm" title="Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, When either man or woman shall separate themselves to vow a vow of a Nazarite, to separate themselves to the LORD:...">Numbers 6:2-5</a></span>. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="24"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/acts/21-24.htm">Acts 21:24</a></div><div class="verse">Them take, and purify thyself with them, and be at charges with them, that they may shave <i>their</i> heads: and all may know that those things, whereof they were informed concerning thee, are nothing; but <i>that</i> thou thyself also walkest orderly, and keepest the law.</div> <span class="bld">Purify thyself; </span> they advise Paul to perform all those rites required of a Nazarite, the observation of which did legally purify him. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">Be at charges with them; </span> these charges were about the threefold sacrifice which were to be offered, two turtles or young pigeons, a lamb, unleavened bread, and cakes of fine flour, as <span class="bld"><a href="/context/numbers/6-10.htm" title="And on the eighth day he shall bring two turtles, or two young pigeons, to the priest, to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation:...">Numbers 6:10-12</a>,15</span>: and the other four, spoken of <span class="bld"><a href="/acts/21-23.htm" title="Do therefore this that we say to you: We have four men which have a vow on them;">Acts 21:23</a></span>, being poor, they require Paul here to bear their charges also, that so he might appear to be the chief amongst them, and the more zealous in their law, to take away the scandal that was taken up by the Jews against him; these ceremonies being as yet not deadly, or evil, though they were dead and indifferent. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">Shave their heads; </span> which was done at the end of their separation, and was the accomplishment of all; and they burned the hair which they shaved off under their sacrifices, to show, that all their legal performances were only acceptable unto God through Jesus Christ, who was sacrificed for us, <span class="bld"><a href="/1_corinthians/5-7.htm" title="Purge out therefore the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, as you are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:">1 Corinthians 5:7</a> <a href="/hebrews/10-12.htm" title="But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;">Hebrews 10:12</a></span>. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">Walkest orderly, and keepest the law; </span> livest according to the law of Moses, contrary unto what they reported of thee. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="25"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/acts/21-25.htm">Acts 21:25</a></div><div class="verse">As touching the Gentiles which believe, we have written <i>and</i> concluded that they observe no such thing, save only that they keep themselves from <i>things</i> offered to idols, and from blood, and from strangled, and from fornication.</div> These ceremonies (after their accomplishment in Christ) not being at all necessary, they were not imposed upon any that received the faith of Christ from amongst the Gentiles, or other nations; only suffered for a while unto the Jews that turned to Christ, for the hardness of their hearts, and inveterate zeal for them. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">Things offered to idols, &c.:</span> of these things, <span class="bld">See Poole on "<a href="/matthew/15-29.htm" title="And Jesus departed from there, and came near to the sea of Galilee; and went up into a mountain, and sat down there.">Matthew 15:29</a>"</span>. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="26"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/acts/21-26.htm">Acts 21:26</a></div><div class="verse">Then Paul took the men, and the next day purifying himself with them entered into the temple, to signify the accomplishment of the days of purification, until that an offering should be offered for every one of them.</div> Paul agrees to their advice, and follows it; and having set such a time for his vow as might end with the other four men’s, he, with the four mentioned, signify to the priest (who was concerned to know it, because of the sacrifices that were to be offered for them), that the time of their separation was fulfilled, which is here called <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">the days of purification, </span> for the reason intimated, in <span class="bld"><a href="/acts/21-24.htm" title="Them take, and purify yourself with them, and be at charges with them, that they may shave their heads: and all may know that those things, whereof they were informed concerning you, are nothing; but that you yourself also walk orderly, and keep the law.">Acts 21:24</a></span>. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">Until that an offering should be offered for every one of them:</span> intending to abide in the temple until all those rites were performed which were required of them. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="27"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/acts/21-27.htm">Acts 21:27</a></div><div class="verse">And when the seven days were almost ended, the Jews which were of Asia, when they saw him in the temple, stirred up all the people, and laid hands on him,</div> <span class="bld">The seven days; </span> either, <span class="p"><br /><br /></span>1. After his coming to Jerusalem; or rather, <span class="p"><br /><br /></span>2. Of his vow; for it is thought that his vow of separation was but for seven days; or: <span class="p"><br /><br /></span>3. The seven days of that feast of Pentecost which he came unto. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">The Jews which were of Asia; </span> who were implacably set against him wheresoever he went, as <span class="bld"><a href="/acts/14-19.htm" title="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.">Acts 14:19</a> 17:5</span>. These Jews dwelt at Ephesus and elsewhere, but were come to observe the feast at Jerusalem. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">Laid hands on him; </span> by violence, and against law. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="28"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/acts/21-28.htm">Acts 21:28</a></div><div class="verse">Crying out, Men of Israel, help: This is the man, that teacheth all <i>men</i> every where against the people, and the law, and this place: and further brought Greeks also into the temple, and hath polluted this holy place.</div> <span class="bld">Men of Israel; </span> minding them by this compellation, of their being a peculiar people unto God, and that none might be admitted with them in his worship. A charge is laid against St. Paul consisting of divers articles, but all false; for he was a most zealous lover of that people, and taught them nothing but the true use and meaning of the law: but thus they had done to our Saviour, <span class="bld"><a href="/matthew/26-61.htm" title="And said, This fellow said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.">Matthew 26:61</a></span>, and to St. Stephen, <span class="bld"><a href="/acts/6-13.htm" title="And set up false witnesses, which said, This man ceases not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place, and the law:">Acts 6:13</a></span>. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">Into the temple; </span> that is, into the court of the Jews, which is so far unlawful, that they might have killed a Roman if he had come in there; and everyone was warned by an inscription upon the pillars, Mh dein allofulon entov tou agiou parienai, That no stranger or foreigner might come into that holy place. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="29"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/acts/21-29.htm">Acts 21:29</a></div><div class="verse">(For they had seen before with him in the city Trophimus an Ephesian, whom they supposed that Paul had brought into the temple.)</div> <span class="bld">For they had seen; </span> the Jews of Asia, who could not but know Trophimus; and he following of Paul in this journey, either ignorantly or maliciously they accuse the apostle for taking him into the temple with him; which was only their surmise, and the issue of their enraged jealousy. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="30"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/acts/21-30.htm">Acts 21:30</a></div><div class="verse">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.</div> <span class="bld">And all the city was moved; </span> there was a general concourse from all parts. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="ital">Tantum religio poterat, </span> no such heats as such are which are moved about religion; whilst <span class="ital">the wisdom that is from above, is first pure, then peaceable, </span><span class="bldvs"> <a href="/james/3-17.htm" title="But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.">Jam 3:17</a></span>. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">Drew him out of the temple; </span> lest by their uproar they should occasion any of the Gentiles to come in there to quell them; or, intending to kill Paul, they drew him thence, that he might not pollute that holy place with his blood: thus they strain at a gnat, being unwilling to pollute the temple; but they would swallow a camel, not sticking to shed the blood of the innocent. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">The doors were shut; </span> either by the keeper of the doors, or by the soldiers of the temple. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="31"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/acts/21-31.htm">Acts 21:31</a></div><div class="verse">And as they went about to kill him, tidings came unto the chief captain of the band, that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.</div> <span class="bld">The chief captain; </span> the commander-in-chief over all the soldiers there; or one that had the command over a thousand. At the three great feasts there was usually a considerable number of soldiers at Jerusalem; the confluence from all parts being then so great, and the Jews so impatient of any yoke or government, the Romans durst not trust such multitudes without some check upon them. Thus at the passover, when they took and crucified our Saviour, these soldiers were made use of, <span class="bld"><a href="/john/18-12.htm" title="Then the band and the captain and officers of the Jews took Jesus, and bound him,">John 18:12</a></span>. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="32"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/acts/21-32.htm">Acts 21:32</a></div><div class="verse">Who immediately took soldiers and centurions, and ran down unto them: and when they saw the chief captain and the soldiers, they left beating of Paul.</div> A wonderful providence of God for Paul’s preservation, that the chief captain should be so near, as to be able to hinder the massacring of Paul; and especially that he should be defended and preserved by one that was a stranger to him, and an enemy to his religion! <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">They left beating of Paul, </span> lest they should have been set upon by the soldiers, for breaking the peace, &c. The fear of man caused them to forbear what the fear of God could not. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="33"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/acts/21-33.htm">Acts 21:33</a></div><div class="verse">Then the chief captain came near, and took him, and commanded <i>him</i> to be bound with two chains; and demanded who he was, and what he had done.</div> <span class="bld">Bound with two chains; </span> whether as Peter was, <span class="bld">See Poole on "<a href="/acts/12-6.htm" title="And when Herod would have brought him forth, the same night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains: and the keepers before the door kept the prison.">Acts 12:6</a>"</span>, or that he was bound with one upon his feet, and with the other upon his hands, it was exactly fulfilled what Agabus had prophesied concerning him, <span class="bld"><a href="/acts/21-11.htm" title="And when he was come to us, he took Paul's girdle, and bound his own hands and feet, and said, Thus said the Holy Ghost, So shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man that ownes this girdle, and shall deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.">Acts 21:11</a></span>. So does God provide, that not one word of his servants, which they speak from him, shall fail; and that St. Paul should be heard before he was condemned. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="34"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/acts/21-34.htm">Acts 21:34</a></div><div class="verse">And some cried one thing, some another, among the multitude: and when he could not know the certainty for the tumult, he commanded him to be carried into the castle.</div> <span class="bld">Some cried one thing, some another; </span> as is usual in popular commotions, they agreed in doing mischief, but not in the reason of it. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">Into the castle</span> called Antonia, because it was built in honour of Mark Antony, on the north side of the temple. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="35"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/acts/21-35.htm">Acts 21:35</a></div><div class="verse">And when he came upon the stairs, so it was, that he was borne of the soldiers for the violence of the people.</div> <span class="bld">When he came upon the stairs, </span> in the ascent to the castle, <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">he was borne of the soldiers; </span> either because the press was so great, he being in the midst of them; or being taken up by them, to secure him from the fury of the enraged multitude. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="36"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/acts/21-36.htm">Acts 21:36</a></div><div class="verse">For the multitude of the people followed after, crying, Away with him.</div> That is, Kill him; for that was indeed to take him out of their way. The same speech they used against our Saviour, <span class="bld"><a href="/luke/23-18.htm" title="And they cried out all at once, saying, Away with this man, and release to us Barabbas:">Luke 23:18</a> <a href="/john/19-15.htm" title="But they cried out, Away with him, away with him, crucify him. Pilate said to them, Shall I crucify your King? The chief priests answered, We have no king but Caesar.">John 19:15</a></span>, when they desired his death. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="37"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/acts/21-37.htm">Acts 21:37</a></div><div class="verse">And as Paul was to be led into the castle, he said unto the chief captain, May I speak unto thee? Who said, Canst thou speak Greek?</div> <span class="bld">May I speak unto thee?</span> A common expression in that language, whereby he craves leave, and bespeaks attention. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">Canst thou speak Greek?</span> After the Grecian empire, their language became and continued to be very common in Asia and Egypt, and very well known amongst all the Romans of any education or quality. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="38"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/acts/21-38.htm">Acts 21:38</a></div><div class="verse">Art not thou that Egyptian, which before these days madest an uproar, and leddest out into the wilderness four thousand men that were murderers?</div> <span class="bld">That Egyptian; </span> a famous ringleader of a rebellious crew, as some think, in the reign of Tiberius; but as others, in the thirteenth year of the emperor Claudius, and continued till under Nero’s reign, and came, from these four thousand mentioned here at his first setting up, to have thirty thousand followers; pretending himself to be a prophet; of whom Josephus, Antiq. lib. 20. cap. 11. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">Murderers, </span> or assassins, that did wear daggers or stilettos. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="39"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/acts/21-39.htm">Acts 21:39</a></div><div class="verse">But Paul said, I am a man <i>which am</i> a Jew of Tarsus, <i>a city</i> in Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city: and, I beseech thee, suffer me to speak unto the people.</div> <span class="bld">No mean city; </span> it being the metropolis, or chief city, in Cilicia, built by Perseus, as some think; howsoever, having the privilege of the Roman freedom; as <span class="bld"><a href="/acts/22-28.htm" title="And the chief captain answered, With a great sum obtained I this freedom. And Paul said, But I was free born.">Acts 22:28</a></span>. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">I beseech thee:</span> St. Paul begs leave to speak unto the people, that he might not seem to affect popularity, or to be guilty of any insurrection or tumult. Thus he had leave also of Agrippa, before that he made that famous apology, <span class="bld"><a href="/acts/26-1.htm" title="Then Agrippa said to Paul, You are permitted to speak for yourself. Then Paul stretched forth the hand, and answered for himself:">Acts 26:1</a></span>. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="40"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/acts/21-40.htm">Acts 21:40</a></div><div class="verse">And when he had given him licence, Paul stood on the stairs, and beckoned with the hand unto the people. And when there was made a great silence, he spake unto <i>them</i> in the Hebrew tongue, saying,</div> <span class="bld">Paul stood on the stairs; </span> as he was now about to be carried into the castle Antonia, before mentioned. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">And beckoned with the hand; </span> signifying that he craved their audience; as <span class="bld"><a href="/acts/12-17.htm" title="But he, beckoning to them with the hand to hold their peace, declared to them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. And he said, Go show these things to James, and to the brothers. And he departed, and went into another place.">Acts 12:17</a> 13:16</span>. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">He spake unto them in the Hebrew tongue; </span> the Hebrew tongue being understood by all of them, and most grateful unto them. Yet this was not the pure and ancient Hebrew, which had been corrupted ever since their captivity; but the Syriac tongue, which they there learned, was called Hebrew, it having at first been derived from the Hebrew, and being then in use by those who were, Hebrews. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Matthew Poole's Commentary<br /><br />Text Courtesy of <a href="//biblesupport.com" target="_top">BibleSupport.com</a>. 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