Acts 21:30 - Exposition

Laid hold on for took, A.V. ; dragged for drew, A.V. ; straightway for forth with, A.V. The doors wore shut . The doors of the gates which separated the ἅγιον , or as Luke here styles it the ἱερόν , from the court of the Gentiles. They turned Paul out of the ἱερόν , intending to kill him, and shut the doors, lest, in the confusion and the swaying to and fro of the crowd, the precincts of the temple should chance to be defiled with blood, or even with the presence of any who were unclean.