Hechos 21:26

26 Entonces Pablo tomó consigo aquellos hombres, y al día siguiente, habiéndose purificado con ellos, entró en el Templo, para anunciar el cumplimiento de los días de la purificación, hasta ser ofrecida ofrenda por cada uno de ellos

Hechos 21:26 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 21:26

Then Paul took the men
The four men that had the vow on them; he joined himself to them, and put himself in the same condition, and under a like vow: this he did, not as what he thought himself bound to do in obedience to the law, and much less as necessary to salvation; but to satisfy weak minds, and remove their prejudices, that he might gain them, and be useful to them; and in such a case he would very easily and readily condescend; but when such like things were insisted upon as points of duty, and especially when urged as necessary to salvation, no one more stiffly opposed them:

and the next day purifying himself with them;
that is, not separating himself along with them, from what they were obliged by the vow of the Nazarite, as from drinking of wine and shaving, and from everything that was unclean by the law; for this was now done, but cleansing himself afterwards with them: he

entered into the temple, to signify the accomplishment of the days
of the purification:
the sense is, that when the days of separation were fulfilled, which the four men had vowed, as everyone might vow what time he pleased, he went to the priests in the temple, to signify it to them, that the time of their purification was expiring:

until that an offering should be offered for everyone of them;
as the law directs in ( Numbers 6:13-20 ) when he proposed to pay the charges of it, or at least part of it.

Hechos 21:26 In-Context

24 Tomando a éstos contigo, purifícate con ellos, y gaste por ellos, para que rasuren sus cabezas, y todos entiendan que no hay nada de lo que fueron informados acerca de ti; sino que tú también andas guardando la ley

25 Pero en cuanto a los gentiles que han creído, nosotros les hemos escrito haberse acordado que no guarden nada de esto; solamente que se abstengan de lo que fuere sacrificado a los ídolos, y de sangre, y de lo ahogado, y de fornicación

26 Entonces Pablo tomó consigo aquellos hombres, y al día siguiente, habiéndose purificado con ellos, entró en el Templo, para anunciar el cumplimiento de los días de la purificación, hasta ser ofrecida ofrenda por cada uno de ellos

27 Y cuando estaban para acabarse los siete días, unos judíos de Asia, como le vieron en el Templo, alborotaron todo el pueblo y le echaron mano

28 dando voces: Varones israelitas, ayudad. Este es el hombre que por todas partes enseña a todos contra el pueblo, y la ley, y este lugar; y además de esto ha metido los gentiles en el Templo, y ha contaminado este lugar santo