Act 21:26-36 | TNotes | STEP | Summary for Acts 21:26-36: 21:26-36 The concerns of the Christian leaders (21:20-25 ) were evidently well based, for when their vows were almost completed, some Jews from the province of Asia raised a mob against Paul with false charges. They were intent on killing Paul, but the Roman commander rescued him.

a21:26-36►

b21:20-25►

c21:28-29►

dActs 20:4►

e2 Tim 4:20►

f21:30►

g21:31►

h21:34►

‏ Acts 21:26-36

Summary for Acts 21:26-36: 21:26-36 ^a The concerns of the Christian leaders (21:20-25 ^b) were evidently well based, for when their vows were almost completed, some Jews from the province of Asia raised a mob against Paul with false charges. They were intent on killing Paul, but the Roman commander rescued him.
Summary for Acts 21:28-29: 21:28-29 ^c Gentiles: It was a crime punishable by death to bring any non-Jew into the Temple precincts beyond the Court of the Gentiles (see also Josephus, War 5.5.2; 6.2.4). The Jews assumed that Paul had violated this sacred law by bringing Trophimus, a Gentile from Ephesus (see also Acts 20:4 ^d; 2 Tim 4:20 ^e), into the forbidden area.
21:30 ^f This supposed desecration of the Temple aroused the fury of the Jewish populace. The Temple ... gates were closed because they thought the Temple had been defiled by a Gentile.
21:31 ^g commander: Or tribune, a Roman officer who commanded 1,000 men.
21:34 ^h The fortress of Antonia, a large military garrison built by Herod the Great on the northwest corner of the Temple Mount, accommodated the Roman cohort that was stationed there to keep the peace.