Atti 21:29

29 Perciocchè dinanzi avean veduto Trofimo Efesio nella città con Paolo, e pensavano ch’egli l’avesse menato dentro al tempio.

Atti 21:29 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 21:29

For they had seen before with him in the city
Not of Ephesus, but of Jerusalem:

Trophimus an Ephesian;
the same that is mentioned in ( Acts 20:4 ) whom these Jews of Asia, and who very probably were inhabitants of Ephesus, knew very well to be a Gentile:

whom they supposed Paul had brought into the temple;
for seeing him walk with the apostle very familiarly through the streets of Jerusalem, they concluded from thence, that he took him with him into the temple, which was a very rash and ill grounded conclusion; and which shows the malignity and virulence of their minds, and how ready they were to make use of any opportunity, and take up any occasion against him, even a bare surmise, and which had no show of probability in it; for it can never be thought, that while Paul was using methods to remove the prejudices of the Jews against him, he should take such a step as this, to introduce a Gentile into the holy place, which he knew was unlawful, and would greatly irritate and provoke them.

Atti 21:29 In-Context

27 Ora, come i sette giorni erano presso che compiuti, i Giudei dell’Asia, vedutolo nel tempio, commossero tutta la moltitudine, e gli misero le mani addosso,

28 gridando: Uomini Israeliti, venite al soccorso; costui è quell’uomo, che insegna per tutto a tutti una dottrina che è contro al popolo, e contro alla legge, e contro a questo luogo; ed oltre a ciò, ha eziandio menati de’ Greci dentro al tempio, ed ha contaminato questo santo luogo.

29 Perciocchè dinanzi avean veduto Trofimo Efesio nella città con Paolo, e pensavano ch’egli l’avesse menato dentro al tempio.

30 E tutta la città fu commossa, e si fece un concorso di popolo; e, preso Paolo, lo trassero fuor del tempio; e subito le porte furon serrate.

31 Ora, com’essi cercavano d’ucciderlo, il grido salì al capitano della schiera, che tutta Gerusalemme era sottosopra.