Act 21:33, 28:17, 20 | PNT | STEP | Took him, and commanded [him] to be bound . The first thought of the commander was that the man seized was some great criminal. From we learned that he supposed Paul was an Egyptian rebel. Hence he ordered him bound.

Acts 21:33

Took him, and commanded [him] to be bound. The first thought of the commander was that the man seized was some great criminal. From Ac 21:38 we learned that he supposed Paul was an Egyptian rebel. Hence he ordered him bound.

Acts 28:17

After three days. We see indicated his restless activity. In three days after his arrival as a prisoner he begins his work. The first three days had probably been devoted to the brethren.

The chief of the Jews. The leading Jews. Josephus says that fifty years earlier there were 8,000 Jews in Rome. A quarter of the city north of the Tiber was given up to them. In A.D. 49, they had been banished by decree of the Emperor Claudius, but shortly after were allowed to return. At this time they enjoyed favor, Poppaea, the wife of Nero, being a proselyte to the Jewish faith. These chiefs would include the rulers of the synagogues, the scribes, and the heads of the leading families.

Men, brethren. In a short speech, of which we have only an abstract, he told them how he came to be there as a prisoner. No doubt he fully explained the ground of enmity and his appeal; so fully that when he said,

Acts 28:20

For the hope of Israel. They knew that it was the hope of Christ and the resurrection.

I am bound with this chain. A reference to the one that bound him to the soldier.