Acts 21:30

Acts 21:30 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)And all the city was moved, and the people ran together: and they took Paul, and drew him out of the temple: and forthwith the doors were shut.
• New International Version (NIV)The whole city was aroused, and the people came running from all directions. Seizing Paul, they dragged him from the temple, and immediately the gates were shut.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Then all the city was stirred up, and the people ran together. They seized Paul and dragged him out of the temple, and at once the gates were shut.
• New King James Version (NKJV)And all the city was disturbed; and the people ran together, seized Paul, and dragged him out of the temple; and immediately the doors were shut.

Context of Acts 21:30

28shouting, “Men of Israel, help! This is the man who teaches everyone everywhere against our people, our law, and this sanctuary! Furthermore he has brought Greeks into the inner courts of the temple and made this holy place ritually unclean!” 29(For they had seen Trophimus the Ephesian in the city with him previously, and they assumed Paul had brought him into the inner temple courts.) The whole city was stirred up, and the people rushed together. They seized Paul and dragged him out of the temple courts, and immediately the doors were shut. 31While they were trying to kill him, a report was sent up to the commanding officer of the cohort that all Jerusalem was in confusion. 32He immediately took soldiers and centurions and ran down to the crowd. When they saw the commanding officer and the soldiers, they stopped beating Paul.

Acts 21:30 word by word

ἐκινήθη τε ἡ πόλις ὅλη καὶ ἐγένετο συνδρομὴ τοῦ λαοῦ, καὶ ἐπιλαβόμενοι τοῦ Παύλου εἷλκον αὐτὸν ἔξω τοῦ ἱεροῦ· καὶ εὐθέως ἐκλείσθησαν αἱ θύραι.Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Andτεte · and/bothG5037
• allὅλοςholos · allG3650
• the cityὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
• the cityπόλιςpolis · cityG4172
• wasγίνομαιginomai · to beG1096
• movedκινέωkineō · to moveG2795
• andκαίkai · andG2532
• the peopleλαόςlaos · a peopleG2992
• ran togetherσυνδρομήsundromē · swarmingG4890
• they tookἐπιλαμβάνωepilambanomai · to catchG1949
• PaulΠαῦλοςPaulos · PaulG3972
• and drewἕλκωhelkuō helkō · to draw/persuadeG1670
• himαὐτόςautos · it/s/heG846
• out ofἔξωexō · out/outside(r)G1854
• the templeἱερόνhieron · templeG2411
• forthwithεὐθέωςeutheōs · immediatelyG2112
• the doorsθύραthura · doorG2374
• were shutκλείωkleiō · to shutG2808

Cross-references for Acts 21:30

• Acts 16:20When they had brought them before the magistrates, they said, “These men are throwing our city into confusion. They are Jews
• Acts 19:29The city was filled with the uproar, and the crowd rushed to the theater together, dragging with them Gaius and Aristarchus, the Macedonians who were Paul’s traveling companions.
• Acts 26:21For this reason the Jews seized me in the temple courts and were trying to kill me.
• Matthew 2:3When King Herod heard this he was alarmed, and all Jerusalem with him.
• Matthew 21:10As he entered Jerusalem the whole city was thrown into an uproar, saying, “Who is this?”
• Acts 7:57But they covered their ears, shouting out with a loud voice, and rushed at him with one intent.
• Acts 16:19But when her owners saw their hope of profit was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace before the authorities.
• Luke 4:29They got up, forced him out of the town, and brought him to the brow of the hill on which their town was built, so that they could throw him down the cliff.
• 2 Corinthians 11:26I have been on journeys many times, in dangers from rivers, in dangers from robbers, in dangers from my own countrymen, in dangers from Gentiles, in dangers in the city, in dangers in the wilderness, in dangers at sea, in dangers from false brothers,

Commentaries on Acts 21:30

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 30They took Paul - They tumultuously seized on him; and drew him out of the temple, out of the court of the Israelites, where he was worshipping: and - the doors were shut; the doors of the court of the Gentiles, probably to prevent Paul from getting any succor from his friends in the city; for their whole proceedings show that they purposed to murder him: they brought him out of the court of the Israelites, that court being peculiarly holy, that it might…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 30The city was moved - Was agitated; was thrown into commotion. Drew him out of the temple - Under the pretence that he had defiled it. The evident design was to put him to death, Acts 21:31. The doors were shut - The doors leading into the courts of the temple.Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 27-40Verses 27-40 In the temple, where Paul should have been protected as in a place of safety, he was violently set upon. They falsely charged him with ill doctrine and ill practice against the Mosaic ceremonies. It is no new thing for those who mean honestly and act regularly, to have things laid to their charge which they know not and never thought of. It is common for the wise and good to have that charged against them by malicious people, with which they…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 30This supposed defilement of the temple made many of the Jews very angry. They believed the temple had been made unclean by a Greek (non-Jew), so they quickly shut the temple gates.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 27-3027-30. the Jews ... of Asia--in all likelihood those of Ephesus (since they recognized Trophimus apparently as a townsman, Ac 21:29), embittered by their discomfiture (Ac 19:9, &c.).Read the comment

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Commentaries on Acts 21

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Illustrated New Testament
• Burkitt’s Expository Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Family Bible Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• The People’s New Testament
• Robertson’s Word Pictures
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• The Fourfold Gospel and Commentary on Acts
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings