Acts 21

Acts 21

Acts 15:22-24 in Latin (left column) and Greek (right column) in Codex Laudianus, written about AD 550.
Book Acts of the Apostles
Bible part New Testament
Order in the Bible part 5
Category Church history

Acts 21 is the twenty-first chapter of the Acts of the Apostles in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It records the end of Paul's third missionary journey and his arrival and reception in Jerusalem.[1] The book containing this chapter is anonymous, but early Christian tradition uniformly affirmed that Luke composed this book as well as the Gospel of Luke.[2]

Text

Location

This chapter mentions the following places (in order of appearance):

Structure

In the New King James Version, this chapter is sub-divided as:

Verse 8

On the next day we who were Paul’s companions departed and came to Caesarea, and entered the house of Philip the evangelist, who was one of the seven, and stayed with him.[3]

Verse 13

Then Paul answered, “What do you mean by weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.”[4]

Verse 18

On the following day Paul went in with us to James, and all the elders were present.[5]

The James who Paul met with here was James, known as "the brother of Jesus", and also known as "James the Just". The murder of James, the son of Zebedee and brother of John the Apostle, had been reported in Acts 12:2, and this James, the new leader of 'the brethren', was referred to in Acts 12:17. Some commentators identify him with James the son of Alphaeus who had served as one of the twelve apostles (Matthew 10:3), for example Matthew Poole suggested that James was 'one of the apostles',[6] but others disagree. The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges [7] states "There was not any Apostle there or St Luke would hardly have failed to mention the fact, as he was one of those present" and William Robertson Nicoll, in the Expositor's Greek Testament, likewise argued that "Nothing is said of the Apostles" [8] Hans Hinrich Wendt suggested that the presence of [some of] the apostles was encompassed within the reference to 'elders', but this view is contested by Nicoll.[9]

Verse 39

But Paul said, “I am a Jew from Tarsus, in Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city; and I implore you, permit me to speak to the people.”[10]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Halley, Henry H. Halley's Bible Handbook: an abbreviated Bible commentary, 23rd edition, Zondervan Publishing House, 1962.
  2. ↑ Holman Illustrated Bible Handbook. Holman Bible Publishers, Nashville, Tennessee. 2012.
  3. ↑ Acts 21:8
  4. ↑ Acts 21:13
  5. ↑ Acts 21:18
  6. ↑ Poole, M., Matthew Poole's Commentary on Acts 21 http://biblehub.com/commentaries/poole/acts/21.htm accessed 17 October 2015
  7. ↑ Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges on Acts 21 http://biblehub.com/commentaries/cambridge/acts/21.htm accessed 17 October 2015
  8. ↑ Nicoll, W. R., Expositor's Greek Testament on Acts 21 http://biblehub.com/commentaries/egt/acts/21.htm accessed 17 October 2015
  9. ↑ Nicoll, W. R., Expositor's Greek Testament on Acts 21 http://biblehub.com/commentaries/egt/acts/21.htm accessed 17 October 2015
  10. ↑ Acts 21:39

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