11And when he was come unto us, he took Paul's girdle, and bound his own hands and feet, and said, Thus saith the Holy Ghost, So shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man that owneth this girdle, and shall deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.
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Then the chief captain came near, and took him, and commanded him to be bound with two chains; and demanded who he was, and what he had done.
Thus saith the LORD unto me, Go and get thee a linen girdle, and put it upon thy loins, and put it not in water. …
And as Samuel turned about to go away, he laid hold upon the skirt of his mantle, and it rent. …
And it came to pass at that time when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, that the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him in the way; and he had clad himself with a new garment; and they two were alone in the field: …
Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with thee, …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 8-14)We have here Paul and his company arrived at length at Caesarea, where he designed to make some stay, it being the place where the gospel was first preached to the Gentiles, and the Holy Ghost fell upon them , Acts 10:1 , 44 . Now here we are told, I. Who it was that entertained Paul and his company at Caesarea . He seldom had occasion to go to a public house, but, wherever he came, some friend or…
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