使徒行传 21:21-26 CUVS

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Acts 21:20-21

Having rejoiced over Paul’s account of the Gentiles’ conversion, the elders also added that thousands of Jews had become believers, many of them in Jerusalem. Estimates of the population of Jersalem at this time range between 30,000 and 50,000. [Note: Bock, Acts, p. 646.] The elders explained that these Jewish Christians had some misgivings about Paul’s ministry about which they had heard. The word on the streets was that Paul was going beyond his actual practice of not requiring Gentile... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Acts 21:22-24

The elders’ plan aimed to prove to the Jewish Christians in Jerusalem, and to all the Jews there, that Paul had not abandoned the customs of the Jews. He had, of course, ceased to believe and teach that salvation came by obeying the Mosaic Law. He was no longer a Jew in religion, but he was still a racial Jew and as such observed Jewish cultural practices (e.g., a ritual of purification for those who came from foreign, unclean lands; cf. Numbers 19:12). Many commentators believed the vow in... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Acts 21:25

James and the elders repeated their former conviction regarding the instruction of Gentile converts. This was simply a point of clarification designed to emphasize that the decision of the Jerusalem Council still stood (cf. Acts 15:20; Acts 15:29). Their counsel to Paul on this occasion did not contradict their strong commitment to salvation by grace. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Acts 21:26

A Jew would announce the completion of his vow to the priest and then seven days later present his offerings (cf. Numbers 6:13-20). The Law did not prescribe this week’s wait, but it was customary. Paul accompanied the four men into the temple and underwent the rites of purification with them because he was paying the expenses of their vow. A few expositors believed Paul compromised his convictions here. [Note: E.g., Morgan, p. 485.] But this is a minority opinion that I do not share. The Jews... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 21:1-40

St. Paul arrested at jerusalem1. Were gotten] rather, ’had torn ourselves.’ Coos] or Cos, a fertile island off the Carian coast, producing silks, ointments, wheat, and wines.Rhodes] a city, and large island, situated S. of Caria. The famous colossus was a statue of the sun-god, 105 ft. high, which stood at the harbour entrance. Erected 280 b.c., it stood for 56 years, when it was overthrown by an earthquake. Its fragments remained where they fell till 656 a.d. Patara] an important Lycian... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 21:17-40

St. Paul in Jerusalem (Chs 21:17-28:16)17-40. Disturbances in the Temple. St Paul arrested.18. James] The Lord's 'brother,' the acknowledged head of the Church of Jerusalem: cp. Acts 15:13, etc. 19. Particularly] i.e. in minute detail. 20. The Lord (i.e. Jesus)] RV 'God.'23, 24. The four men were Nazirites (see Numbers 6:0), and St. Paul was advised to pay for their sacrifices, and to associate himself with their Nazirite vow during the week that it had still to run (see Act 21:27). By thus... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Acts 21:21

(21) And they are informed of thee . . .—This, it is clear, was the current version of St. Paul’s teaching. How far was it a true representation of its tendencies? As a personal accusation it was, of course, easy to refute it. His rule of adaptation led him to be to the Jews as a Jew (1 Corinthians 9:20). He taught that every man, circumcised or uncircumcised, should accept his position with its attendant obligations (1 Corinthians 7:18-20). He had himself taken the Nazarite vow (Acts 18:18),... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Acts 21:22

(22) The multitude must needs come together.—More accurately, at all events a crowd must needs come together. The report of St. Paul’s arrival was sure to spread, and those who heard of it would be eager to see how he acted. Would he ostentatiously reproduce in Jerusalem that living as a Greek with Greeks (1 Corinthians 9:22) of which they heard as his manner at Corinth and Ephesus? The advice which followed was intended to allay the suspicion of the timid, and to disappoint the expectations of... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Acts 21:23

(23) We have four men which have a vow on them.—The advice was eminently characteristic. (1) It came from one who himself lived as bound by the Nazarite vow. “No razor came upon his head, and he drank neither wine nor strong drink” (Hegesippus in Euseb. Hist. ii. 23). By connecting himself with such a vow St. Paul would show that he was content in these matters to follow in the footsteps of St. James, that he looked upon the observance of the Nazarite vow, if not as binding, at any rate as... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Acts 21:24

(24) Purify thyself with them . . .—This involved sharing their abstinence for the uncompleted term of the vow, and shaving the head at its conclusion.Be at charges with them . . .—Literally, spend money on them. This involved payment (1) for the act of shaving the head, for which probably there was a fixed fee to priest or Levite; (2) for the sacrifices which each Nazarite had to offer—sc., two doves or pigeons, a lamb, an ewe lamb, a ram, a basket of uneavened bread, a meat offering and a... read more

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Acts 21:20-21

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Acts 21:22-24

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Acts 21:25

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Acts 21:26

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 21:1-40

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 21:17-40

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Acts 21:21

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Acts 21:22

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Acts 21:23

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Acts 21:24

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