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Acts 21 — Sermon Preparation
Paul arrives in Jerusalem, meets with James, and is arrested in the temple after a riot breaks out against him. Below is a research summary for Acts 21, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
- 40
- verses
- 798 / 285
- Greek words / lemmas
- 21
- classic sermon excerpts
- 5
- preachers & commentators
Acts 21 in the Greek
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Greek | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | KJV renderings |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Παῦλος | Paûlos | G3972 | 11 | Paul, Paulus |
| ἡμέρα | hēméra | G2250 | 9 | age, alway, day ), for ever |
| Ἱεροσόλυμα | Hierosólyma | G2414 | 7 | Jerusalem |
| ἱερός | hierón | G2411 | 5 | temple |
| χιλίαρχος | chilíarchos | G5506 | 4 | captain |
| λαός | laós | G2992 | 5 | people |
| δέω | déō | G1210 | 4 | bind, be in bonds, knit, tie |
How preachers through history handled this text
21 public-domain excerpts on Acts 21, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“In the temple, where Paul should have been protected as in a place of safety, he was violently set upon. They falsely charged him with ill doctrine and ill practice against the Mosaic ceremonies. It is no new thing for those who mean honestly and act regularly, to have things laid to their charge which they know not and never thought of. It is common for the wise and good to have that charged against them by malicious people, with which they thought to have obliged them. …”
— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible (Concise), on Acts 21:27–40 (Public Domain)
Places in the text
Based on ancient-geography data
- Cos— Acts 21:1
- Patara— Acts 21:1
- Rhodes 1— Acts 21:1
- Judea 1— Acts 21:10
- Jerusalem— Acts 21:11
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