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.
• 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.
• New Living Translation (NLT)The whole city was rocked by these accusations, and a great riot followed. Paul was grabbed and dragged out of the Temple, and immediately the gates were closed behind him.

Context of Acts 21:30

28shouting, “Fellow Israelites, help us! This is the man who teaches everyone everywhere against our people and our law and this place. And besides, he has brought Greeks into the temple and defiled this holy place.” 29(They had previously seen Trophimus the Ephesian in the city with Paul and assumed that Paul had brought him into the temple.) 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. 31While they were trying to kill him, news reached the commander of the Roman troops that the whole city of Jerusalem was in an uproar. 32He at once took some officers and soldiers and ran down to the crowd. When the rioters saw the commander and his 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 16:20They brought them before the magistrates and said, “These men are Jews, and are throwing our city into an uproar
• Acts 19:29Soon the whole city was in an uproar. The people seized Gaius and Aristarchus, Paul’s traveling companions from Macedonia, and all of them rushed into the theater together.
• Acts 26:21That is why some Jews seized me in the temple courts and tried to kill me.
• Matthew 2:3When King Herod heard this he was disturbed, and all Jerusalem with him.
• Matthew 21:10When Jesus entered Jerusalem, the whole city was stirred and asked, “Who is this?”
• Acts 7:57At this they covered their ears and, yelling at the top of their voices, they all rushed at him,
• Acts 16:19When her owners realized that their hope of making money was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace to face the authorities.
• Luke 4:29They got up, drove him out of the town, and took him to the brow of the hill on which the town was built, in order to throw him off the cliff.
• 2 Corinthians 11:26I have been constantly on the move. I have been in danger from rivers, in danger from bandits, in danger from my fellow Jews, in danger from Gentiles; in danger in the city, in danger in the country, in danger at sea; and in danger from false believers.

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