Acts 21:33-23:35

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Acts 21:33

To be bound with two chains - To show to the enraged multitude that he did not intend to rescue anyone from justice, but to keep the peace. Paul’s Being thus bound would convince them of his determination that justice should be done in the case. Probably he was bound between two soldiers, his right arm to the left arm of the one, and his left arm to the right arm of the other. See the notes on Acts 12:6. Or, if his hands and feet were bound, it is evident that it was so done that he was able... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Acts 21:31-36

Acts 21:31-36. And as they went about to kill him It was a rule among the Jews, that any uncircumcised person who came within the separating wall, mentioned above, might be stoned to death without any further process. And they seemed to think Paul, who, as they supposed, had brought such in thither, deserved no better treatment. Tidings came unto the chief captain of the band Greek, τω χιλιαρχω της σπειρης , to the tribune of the cohort, called Lysias. A cohort, or detachment of... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Acts 21:27-36

The crowd attacks Paul (21:27-36)Paul, James and the elders were so busy trying to please the Jerusalem Jews that they may have forgotten Paul’s constant enemies, the Asian Jews (cf. 20:18-19; 2 Corinthians 1:8). These were the ones who brought about his downfall. Because they saw him in the streets with a Gentile friend from Ephesus, they accused him (wrongly) of taking the Gentile into a part of the temple where Gentiles were forbidden (27-29). When a riot broke out, the mob seized Paul and... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Acts 21:33

came near, and = having drawn near. two chains: i.e. either hand chained to a soldier. See note on Acts 12:6 . demanded . Greek. punthanomai . See note on Acts 4:7 ; Acts 10:18 . read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Acts 21:33

Then the chief captain came near, and laid hold on him, and commanded him to be bound with two chains; and inquired who he was, and what he had done. And some shouted one thing, and some another, among the crowd: and when he could not know the certainty of the uproar, he commanded him to be brought into the castle.Thus the apostle Paul passed into the custody of the Roman government, beginning a period of imprisonment which was to last five years; and during which Rome itself would become a... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Acts 21:30-33

Acts 21:30-33. And all the city was moved,— The accusation brought against St. Paul, though false, put all the city in a commotion, and brought a vast concourse of people together, who seized upon him in order to kill him; and therefore they drew him out of the court of the Israelites, lest it should have been defiled with his blood, and hurried him into the court of the Gentiles, which was not accounted so holy. The gates of the temple being shut, they immediately fell upon him, with what the... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Acts 21:33

33. commanded him to be bound with two chains—(See on Acts 21:1). read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Acts 21:27-36

The riot in the temple 21:27-36 read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Acts 21:33-34

The commander arrested Paul assuming that he was a criminal. The two chains the Roman guards placed on Paul probably bound him to two soldiers (cf. Acts 12:6). When the commander tried to learn who Paul was and what he had done from some members of the crowd, he received conflicting information. So he ordered Paul brought into the "barracks," the Fortress of Antonia. 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

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