Acts 21:38

Art not thou certainly that Egyptian who some time since raised a sedition, and led out into the desert four thousand cutthroats?

Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament

In The King James Version

Art not thou that Egyptian, which before these days madest an uproar, and leddest out into the wilderness four thousand men that were murderers?

In Context

37And when he was just ready to be carried into the fortress, Paul said to the military tribune, May I be permitted to speak a word to thee? And he said, Dost thou know Greek?

39But Paul replied, I am indeed a Jew, a man of Tarsus, of Cilicia, a citizen of no contemptible city: and, I entreat thee, permit me to speak to the people.

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Cross References

Matthew 24:26Therefore if they say to you, He is in the wilderness; go not out: lo! he is in the secret closets; believe it not.

1 Corinthians 4:13being injuriously spoken of, we entreat; we are made as the ordures of the world, as the sweepings of all things unto this day.

Matthew Henry on Acts 21:28-40

Paul Seized in the Temple; The Tumult at Jerusalem. 27 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, 28 Crying out, Men of Israel, help: This is the man, that teacheth all men every where against the people, and the law, and this place: and further brought Greeks also into the temple, and hath polluted this holy place. 29 (For they had seen before with him in the city Trophimus an Ephesian, whom they… Read the whole commentary →

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