Acts 26:21 BSB — MannaFest

Acts 26:21

For this reason the Jews seized me in the temple courts and tried to kill me.

BSB

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ASV

For this cause the Jews seized me in the temple, and assayed to kill me.

KJV

For these causes the Jews caught me in the temple, and went about to kill me.

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Commentary

3 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)

For these causes the Jews caught me in the temple,.... He means the Asiatic Jews, who finding him in the temple, laid hold on him, and dragged him out of it: and, as he says, went about to kill me; for no other reason, but for preaching to the Gentiles, and for preaching the above doctrines to them: what he refers to is in Act 21:27.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

He suffered ill, not only for doing well himself, but for doing good to others. They attempted to kill him; it was his precious life that they hunted for, and hated, because it was a useful life; they caught him in the temple worshipping God, and there they set upon him, as if the better place the better deed.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

For these causes the Jews - went about to kill me - These causes may be reduced to four heads: - 1. He had maintained the resurrection of the dead. 2. The resurrection of Christ, whom they had crucified and slain. 3. That this Jesus was the promised Messiah. 4. He had offered salvation to the Gentiles as well as to the Jews.

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Original language & word study

11 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
ἕνεκα	heneka	On account of	G1752 →
τούτων	toutōn	these things	G3778 →
με	me	me	G3165 →
Ἰουδαῖοι	Ioudaioi	Jews	G2453 →
συλλαβόμενοι	sullabomenoi	having seized	G4815 →
ὄντα	onta	being	G1510 →
ἐν	en	in	G1722 →
τῷ	tō	the	G3588 →
ἱερῷ	hi'erō	temple	G2411 →
ἐπειρῶντο	epeirōnto	they were attempting	G3987 →
διαχειρίσασθαι.	diacheirisasthai	to kill.	G1315 →

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The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Acts 22:22
The crowd listened to Paul until he made this statement. Then they lifted up their voices and shouted, “Rid the earth of him! He is not fit to live!”
leads to
- Acts 25:24
  Then Festus said, “King Agrippa and all who are present with us, you see this man. The whole Jewish community has petitioned me about him, both here and in Jerusalem, crying out that he…
- Acts 21:36
  For the crowd that followed him kept shouting, “Away with him!”
- John 19:15
  At this, they shouted, “Away with Him! Away with Him! Crucify Him!” “Shall I crucify your King?” Pilate asked. “We have no king but Caesar,” replied the chief priests.
- Acts 7:54–57
  On hearing this, the members of the Sanhedrin were enraged, and they gnashed their teeth at him.
- Luke 23:18
  But they all cried out in unison: “Away with this man! Release Barabbas to us!”
Through
Acts 21:27
When the seven days were almost over, some Jews from the province of Asia saw Paul at the temple. They stirred up the whole crowd and seized him,
leads to
- Acts 24:18
  At the time they found me in the temple, I was ceremonially clean and was not inciting a crowd or an uproar. But there are some Jews from the province of Asia
- Acts 13:50
  The Jews, however, incited the religious women of prominence and the leading men of the city. They stirred up persecution against Paul and Barnabas and drove them out of their district.
Through
Acts 25:3
to grant them a concession against Paul by summoning him to Jerusalem, because they were preparing an ambush to kill him along the way.
leads to
- Acts 23:12–15
  When daylight came, the Jews formed a conspiracy and bound themselves with an oath not to eat or drink until they had killed Paul.

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01Commentary

The record, by era

Voices on this verse

02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Acts

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Acts