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Acts 21

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. 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.

Contents

Text

  • The original text is written in Koine Greek.
  • Some most ancient manuscripts containing this chapter are:
  • Codex Vaticanus (AD 325-350)
  • Codex Sinaiticus (AD 330-360)
  • Codex Bezae (ca. AD 400)
  • Codex Alexandrinus (ca. AD 400-440)
  • Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus (ca. AD 450; extant: verses 1-30)
  • Codex Laudianus (ca. AD 550)
  • This chapter is divided into 40 verses.

    • Location

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

    Structure

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

  • Acts 21:1-14 = Warnings on the Journey to Jerusalem
  • Acts 21:15-25 = Paul Urged to Make Peace
  • Acts 21:26-36 = Arrested in the Temple
  • Acts 21:37-40 = Addressing the Jerusalem Mob

    • 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.

    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.”

    Verse 18

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

    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', but others disagree. The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 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" 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.

    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.”

    References

    Acts 21 Wikipedia
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