Acts 21:28 - Exposition

Moreover he for further brought, A.V.; defiled for polluted, A.V. (For the accusation, comp. on. Acts 6:13 , and above, verse 21.) Brought Greeks also, etc. No uncircumcised person might go beyond the court of the Gentiles, which was not in the ἅγιον . The ἱερόν , which is often used in a wider sense of the whole area, is here restricted to the ἅγιον (see Acts 3:1 , note). But the accusation was utterly false, the offspring of their own fanatical suspicions. Defiled ( κεκοίνωκε ); literally, made common (see Acts 10:15 ; Acts 11:9 ).