Atti 21:33

33 Allora il tribuno, accostatosi, lo prese, e comandò che fosse legato con due catene; poi domandò chi egli fosse, e che cosa avesse fatto.

Atti 21:33 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 21:33

Then the chief captain came near
To the place where the Jews were beating Paul:

and took him
the Arabic version adds, "from them"; he rescued him out of their hands, as he himself says, ( Acts 23:27 ) .

And commanded him to be bound with two chains:
partly to appease the people, and partly to secure Paul; who, he supposed, had been guilty of some misdemeanour, which had occasioned this tumult; these two chains were put, one on one arm, and the other on the other arm; and were fastened to two soldiers, who walked by him, having hold on those chains, the one on his right hand, and the other on his left; and thus Agabus's prophecy in ( Acts 21:11 ) was fulfilled:

and demanded who he was;
or asked and inquired about him, who he was, of what nation he was, what was his character, business, and employment: this inquiry was made, either of the apostle himself, or of the people; and so the Arabic version renders it, "he inquired of them who he was"; also

and what he had done;
what crime he had been guilty of, that they used him in such a manner.

Atti 21:33 In-Context

31 Or com’essi cercavano d’ucciderlo, arrivò su al tribuno della coorte la voce che tutta Gerusalemme era sossopra.

32 Ed egli immediatamente prese con sé de’ soldati e de’ centurioni, e corse giù ai Giudei, i quali, veduto il tribuno e i soldati, cessarono di batter Paolo.

33 Allora il tribuno, accostatosi, lo prese, e comandò che fosse legato con due catene; poi domandò chi egli fosse, e che cosa avesse fatto.

34 E nella folla gli uni gridavano una cosa, e gli altri un’altra; onde, non potendo saper nulla di certo a cagion del tumulto, comandò ch’egli fosse menato nella fortezza.

35 Quando Paolo arrivò alla gradinata dovette, per la violenza della folla, esser portato dai soldati,