Acts 21:36

Act 21:36. Γὰρ, for) The violence and impetuosity of the people is evidenced by their cries.

Bengel's Gnomon of the New Testament — English translation (T&T Clark, Edinburgh, 1860) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Act 21:36 . ἠκολούθει , imperfect, “kept following”. Αἶρε αὐτόυ : the cry was continuous; it was the same cry which had been raised against another and a greater prisoner Who had been delivered to the Romans as a malefactor, cf. Luk 23:18 , Joh 19:15 , and also Polycarp, Martyr , iii., 19.

The Expositor's Greek Testament, edited by W. Robertson Nicoll (1897–1910) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Verse 36. Away with him.] That is, Kill him; despatch him! for so much this phrase always means in the mouth of a Jewish mob. See Clarke on Lu 23:18, and See Clarke on Joh 19:15.

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(36) Away with him.—We remember that the self-same cry had been raised at the time of the Crucifixion (Luk_23:18; Joh_19:15), and that it was used now with the same meaning with which it had been used then.

A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

36. For … Away with him] The same cry which (Luk_23:18) was used by the Jews before Pilate in reference to Jesus.

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For the multitude of the people followed after,.... The captain and the soldiers, who had taken away Paul from them, and were carrying him to the castle:

crying, away with him; or "take him away", that is, by death; or "lift him up", upon the cross, crucify him, crucify him, as they said concerning Christ.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

36 For the multitude of the people followed after, crying, Away with him.

Ver. 36. Away with him] Yea, but stay, Paul’s time was in God’s hand, who had told him that after he had been at Jerusalem he must see Rome too. In the mean time it might be some comfort to Paul to hear the same words (and perhaps by the same men) used of him, as had been before of his Master Christ, Away with him, &c. It is sufficient for the servant to be as his Lord. Art thou not glad to fare as Phocion? said he to one that was to suffer with him. {a} Holy Ignatius took great comfort in this, that though he suffered death for Christ, yet in the day when God should make up his jewels, he should reckon not only from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, but from the blood of Zacharias to the blood of mean Ignatius. We have mentioned before that martyr that rejoiced that she might have her foot in the hole of the stocks in which Mr Philpot had been before her. When Luther thought he should die of an apoplexy, {b} it comforted him that the apostle John had died of that disease. How much more should it do us, that we "fill up that only which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in our flesh," Col 1:24, and that suffering together, we shall also reign together!

{a} ουκ αγαπας μετα Φωκιωνος αποθανουμενος. Plut. Apoph.

{b} A malady, very sudden in its attack, which arrests more or less completely the powers of sense and motion; it is usually caused by an effusion of blood or serum in the brain, and preceded by giddiness, partial loss of muscular power, etc. ŒD

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Away with him! - That is, to death. Compare Luk 23:18.

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible (1834–1885) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

That is, Kill him; for that was indeed to take him out of their way. The same speech they used against our Saviour, Luk 23:18; Joh 19:15, when they desired his death.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

36. Away with him—The apostle is rejected in the same fierce terms as was his Master by the same Jerusalem more than twenty years ago. (Luke 28:18; Joh_19:15.) Yet in the midst of this wild storm of human passions a Divine result is being worked out. Paul had foreseen that his mission was to go to Jerusalem, and after to see Rome. He has now been to Jerusalem, and he is yet to see Rome; yet not, as he had expected, at his own cost. The iron arm of the Roman power will take him, and at its own expense place him in Rome; but with sufferings and martyrdoms that shall enable him to be a pattern for the Church, to all ages, of heroism for Christ.

Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Crying out for crying, A.V. Away with him. The cry of those who thirsted for the blood of Jesus Christ. (Luk_23:18; see also Act_22:22, where the sense comes out fully)

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

See notes on verse 35

J. W. McGarvey (with Philip Y. Pendleton), Commentaries on the New Testament (The Fourfold Gospel, 1914; Acts; and the epistles) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

36. κράζοντες with אABE. Vulg. ‘clamans.’

36. τὸ πλῆθος … κράζοντες, the multitude … crying. The plural masculine participle is used, because the notion of πλῆθος is plural.

αἶρε αὐτόν, away with him. The same cry which (Luk 23:18) was used by the Jews before Pilate in reference to Jesus.

Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges (Cambridge University Press, 1896; 21 vols, various authors incl. Carr, Maclear, Plummer, Farrar, Lumby, Moule, M. R. James, Simcox) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Stairs. Leading from the temple - court to the tower. There were two flights, one to the northern and the other to the western cloister, so that the guard could go different ways among the cloisters in order to watch the people at the Jewish festivals.

So it was [συνεβη] . Lit., it happened. The verb means, literally, to come together; hence, of a coincidence of events. It is designedly introduced here to express more vividly the fact of the peculiar emergency and the peril of Paul 's situation. Things came to such a pass that he had to be carried up the stairs.

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