21For these causes the Jews caught me in the temple, and went about to kill me.
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And all the city was moved, and the people ran together: and they took Paul, and drew him out of the temple: and forthwith the doors were shut. …
And when the seven days were almost ended, the Jews which were of Asia, when they saw him in the temple, stirred up all the people, and laid hands on him,
And desired favour against him, that he would send for him to Jerusalem, laying wait in the way to kill him.
And when it was day, certain of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul. …
And they gave him audience unto this word, and then lifted up their voices, and said, Away with such a fellow from the earth: for it is not fit that he should live.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 12-23)All who believe a God, and have a reverence for his sovereignty, must acknowledge that those who speak and act by his direction, and by warrant from him, are not to be opposed; for that is fighting against God . Now Paul here, by a plain and faithful narrative of matters of fact, makes it out to this august assembly that he had an immediate call from heaven to preach the gospel of Christ to the Ge…
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