Handelingen 21:35

35 En als hij aan de trappen gekomen was, gebeurde het, dat hij van de krijgsknechten gedragen werd vanwege het geweld der schare.

Handelingen 21:35 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 21:35

And when he came upon the stairs
Or steps, which led up to the castle; for it was built upon a very high place, as appears from the account of it in the preceding verse; to which agrees what Aristaeas ^F7 says of it in the following words;

``in order to have knowledge of all things, we went up to a castle adjoining to the city, which is situated in a very high place, fortified with very high towers, built with large stones, as we supposed for the preservation of the places about the temple, if there should be any lying in wait, or tumult, or enemies should enter; so that none might be able to make way in at the walls about the temple; for in the towers of the castle lay very sharp darts and various instruments, and the place was upon a very great eminence.''

So it was that he was borne of the soldiers for the violence of the
people:
the sense is, either that the crowd of the people was so great, and they so pressed upon Paul and the soldiers that conducted him, that he was even thrown upon them, and bore up by them; or else such was the rage of the people against him, that the soldiers were obliged to take him up in their arms, and carry him, in order to secure him from being tore in pieces by them.

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FOOTNOTES:

F7 Hist. de 70 Interpret. p. 36. Ed. Oxon.

Handelingen 21:35 In-Context

33 Toen naderde de overste en greep hem, en beval, dat men hem met twee ketenen zou binden; en vraagde, wie hij was, en wat hij gedaan had.

34 En onder de schare riep de ene dit, de andere wat anders. Doch als hij de zekerheid niet kon weten vanwege de beroerte, beval hij, dat men hem in de legerplaats zou brengen.

35 En als hij aan de trappen gekomen was, gebeurde het, dat hij van de krijgsknechten gedragen werd vanwege het geweld der schare.

36 Want de menigte des volks volgde, al roepende: Weg met hem!

37 En als Paulus nu in de legerplaats zou geleid worden, zeide hij tot den overste: Is het mij geoorloofd tot u wat te spreken? En hij zeide: Kent gij Grieks?