amid which certain Jews from Asia found me purified in the temple, not with a mob, nor with turmoil.
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amid which certain Jews from Asia found me purified in the temple, not with a mob, nor with turmoil.
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Howbeit there were certayne Iewes out of Asia
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At what time, certaine Iewes of Asia founde mee purified in the Temple, neither with multitude, nor with tumult.
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- Acts 21:26-30 Then Paul took the men, and the next day purified himself and went with them into the temple, declaring the fulfillment of the days of purification, until the offering was offered for every one of them. When the seven days were almost completed, the Jews from Asia, when they saw him in the temple, stirred up all the multitude and laid hands on him, crying out, “Men of Israel, help! This is the man who teaches all men everywhere against the people, and the law, and this place. Moreover, he also brought Greeks into the temple, and has defiled this holy place!” For they had seen Trophimus, the Ephesian, with him in the city, and they supposed that Paul had brought him into the temple. All the city was moved and the people ran together. They seized Paul and dragged him out of the temple. Immediately the doors were shut.
- Acts 26:21 For this reason the Jews seized me in the temple and tried to kill me.
- Acts 24:12 In the temple they didn’t find me disputing with anyone or stirring up a crowd, either in the synagogues, or in the city.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain And while I was busy about those things.
And while I was busy about those things.
Hereby it appeareth that these of Asia were Saul’s enemies, and those that stirred up the people against him.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 18 Whereupon certain Jews from Asia found me purified…
18 Whereupon certain Jews from Asia found me purified in the temple, neither with multitude, nor with tumult.
Ver. 18. Purified in the temple] Therefore surely not profaning of it: unless they will say of me, as Diogenes did of Antipater (who being vicious, wore a white cloak, the ensign of innocence), that he did virtutis stragulam pudefacere, put honesty to an open shame: or unless they will concur in opinion with their utter enemy Florus, who calleth the temple at Jerusalem impiae gentis arcanum, libidinum sacrarium, &c. secret place of a wicked nation, a shrine of lust. Virgil.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Whereupon; upon my bringing up those alms now mentioned;…
Whereupon; upon my bringing up those alms now mentioned; whilst I was employed for the good of my countrymen who now accuse me.
Purified in the temple; performing all things which the law did require of Nazarites, or those who had made a vow, and in which their legal purification did consist.
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Neither with multitude, nor with tumult; the multitude was of their own gathering together; and the tumult, if any, was made by themselves. It is no new thing that Christians should be charged with those mischiefs which their enemies themselves did to make them odious.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Who ought to have been here before thee,.... For…
Who ought to have been here before thee,.... For they were the only persons who saw him in the temple, and what he was doing; and who by an hideous outcry raised a mob upon him, who took things upon hearsay from them:
and object, if they had ought against me; either with respect to sedition, or blasphemy, error or heresy, if they were capable of proving anything.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 18. Found me purified in the temple] And…
Verse 18. Found me purified in the temple] And the Jews of Asia, who stirred up the persecution against me in Jerusalem, found me purified in the temple, regularly performing the religious vow into which I had entered; giving no cause for suspicion; for I made no tumult, nor had I any number of people with me, by whom I could have accomplished any seditious purpose.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Certain Jews from Asia - Act 21:27.
Certain Jews from Asia - Act 21:27.
Found me purified in the temple - Act 21:26-27. They found me engaged in the sacred service of completing the observance of my vow.
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Neither with multitude - Not having introduced a multitude with me - in a quiet and peaceful manner.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain found me purified in the temple--not polluting it, therefore,…
found me purified in the temple--not polluting it, therefore, by my own presence, and neither gathering a crowd nor raising a stir: If then these Asiatic Jews have any charge to bring against me in justification of their arrest of me, why are they not here to substantiate it?
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 18. In the temple— Act_21:26-29.
18. In the temple— Act_21:26-29.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 18. Whereupon] According to the best MSS. the relative…
18. Whereupon] According to the best MSS. the relative here, by its gender, must be referred to the “offerings” which have just been named. Read (with Rev. Ver.) Amidst which, i.e. engaged in offering which oblations.
certain Jews from Asia] These words should, according to all authorities, be placed in the latter clause of the verse. Read “Amidst which they found, &c.”
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found me purified] i.e. abstaining from all things forbidden by the law of the Nazarites. See Num_6:3-8.
neither with multitude, &c.] The gathering of a crowd and raising a disturbance would have been the first steps towards some act of profanation. But even this he had not done. The original requires that we should continue the sentence, “but there were certain Jews from Asia,” as in the Rev. Ver. It was from the Asiatic Jews, perhaps those from Ephesus, that the uproar had at first been originated. It would appear also that part of Tertullus’ argument was derived from their information. Of these Asiatic Jews St Paul was now about to speak, but he checks himself, and does not say any word against them, only that they ought to have been here to explain the offence for which he had been assailed.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (18) Whereupon certain Jews from Asia . . .—Literally,…
(18) Whereupon certain Jews from Asia . . .—Literally, in which things, or wherein. Many of the better MSS. give the relative pronoun in the feminine, as agreeing with “offerings,” and indicating that he was, as it were, occupied with them at the very time when the Jews from Asia found him, not profaning the Temple, but purified with all the completeness which the Nazarite vow required.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Amidst which for whereupon, A.V. and T.R.; they found…
Amidst which for whereupon, A.V. and T.R.; they found me purified in the temple with no crowd, nor yet with tumult: but there were certain Jews from Asia for certain Jews from Asia found me purified in the temple, neither with multitude, nor with tumult, A.V and T.R. Amidst which (ejn aiv, R.T.) refers to the alms and offerings The T.R. has ejn oiv, under which circumstances," "at the transaction of which deeds," or, briefer, "whereupon," A.V. But there were. Most manuscripts followed by the R.T., read tinev de ajpoav, thus giving a broken unfinished sentence instead of the plain and complete one of the T.R., which agrees, moreover, exactly with Act_21:27.
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J. W. McGarvey 1914 · Public Domain See notes on verse 10
See notes on verse 10
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