Acts 21:4 - Exposition

Having found the disciples for finding disciples, A.V. and T.R.; and these for who, A.V.; set foot in for go up to, A.V. and T.R. Having found the disciples , If the R.T. is right, the meaning is that they had sought out the Christians, apparently not a large body, scattered in the city, and perhaps with some difficulty found them and their place of meeting. This would look as if they were not Jews, as the synagogue was always known. He should not set foot in Jerusalem . The R.T. reads ἐπιβαίνειν for ἀναβαίνειν . It is true that, in the LXX . of Deuteronomy 1:36 , τὴν γῆν ἐφ ἢν ἐπέβη means "The land that he hath trodden upon;" and that in Joshua 1:3 again, ποδῶν ὑμῶν means "Every place on which you shall tread with the sole of your feet;" but the phrase ἐπιβαίνειν εἰς ιερουσαλήμ must surely mean simply "to go to Jerusalem." Through the Spirit . The Holy Spirit revealed to them, as he did to many ethers ( Joshua 1:11 and Acts 20:23 ), that bonds and affliction awaited St. Paul at Jerusalem. The inference that he should not go to Jerusalem was their own.