Paul gets arrested

31. January 2011 by Bernice Davis.

Hello Everyone:

Welcome back from the weekend.  All last week, we have been studying about Paul’s trip to Jerusalem.  He had been warned time and time again by his co-laborers that there was great danger awaiting him at Jerusalem and he even made a farewell speak to the people at Ephesus knowing he would never see them again.  In our lesson on Friday, Paul had arrived at Jerusalem and the disciples there told him to follow the purification process with the other brothers so that the Jews would think that he was not opposed to the Jewish customs.  The Jews were upset because they felt Paul was speaking against their religious customs.   Our text picks up today after the purification process is over.

Here is our text:

Acts 21:27 When the seven days were nearly over, some Jews from the province of Asia saw Paul at the temple. They stirred up the whole crowd and seized him, 28 shouting, “Men of Israel, help us! This is the man who teaches all men everywhere against our people and our law and this place. And besides, he has brought Greeks into the temple area and defiled this holy place.” 29 (They had previously seen Trophimus the Ephesian in the city with Paul and assumed that Paul had brought him into the temple area.) 30 The whole city was aroused, and the people came running from all directions. Seizing Paul, they dragged him from the temple, and immediately the gates were shut. 31 While they were trying to kill him, news reached the commander of the Roman troops that the whole city of Jerusalem was in an uproar. 32 He at once took some officers and soldiers and ran down to the crowd. When the rioters saw the commander and his soldiers, they stopped beating Paul. 33 The commander came up and arrested him and ordered him to be bound with two chains. Then he asked who he was and what he had done. 34 Some in the crowd shouted one thing and some another, and since the commander could not get at the truth because of the uproar, he ordered that Paul be taken into the barracks. 35 When Paul reached the steps, the violence of the mob was so great he had to be carried by the soldiers. 36 The crowd that followed kept shouting, “Away with him!”

Stay encouraged and don’t forget to pray and read God’s word daily. 

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