Acts Chapter 21, End Of The 3rd. Missionary Journey, Headed To Jerusalem, compelled by the Spirit, Peacemakers, living in obedience to the law, languages translated

1. Acts 21
Acts Chapter 21, End Of The 3rd.
Missionary Journey, Headed To
Jerusalem, compelled by the Spirit,
Peacemakers, living in obedience to
the law, languages translated

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3. Last time was
Acts 20
Paul leaving
Ephesus

4. Acts 18:23, End Of 3rd.
Missionary Journey

5. • Acts 20, Came From Macedonia

6. Dwelling House
With Three
Floors In The
Forum Of
Trajan, Rome.
Cf. Acts 20:9

7. • Acts 20 Ended In Miletus

8. Acts 21
The End Of The 3rd.
Missionary Journey

9. Acts 21:1, Miletus To Tyre
• Acts 21:1-3 After we had torn ourselves away
from them, we put out to sea and sailed
straight to Cos. The next day we went to
Rhodes and from there to Patara. 2 We found
a ship crossing over to Phoenicia, went on
board and set sail. 3 After sighting Cyprus and
passing to the south of it, we sailed on to
Syria. We landed at Tyre, where our ship was
to unload its cargo.

10. Acts 21:1, Miletus To Tyre

11. Acts 21:4, Through The Spirit
• Acts 21:4 Finding the disciples there, we stayed
with them seven days. Through the Spirit they
urged Paul not to go on to Jerusalem.
• Acts 20:22-23 "And now, compelled by the
Spirit, I am going to Jerusalem, not knowing what
will happen to me there. 23 I only know that in
every city the Holy Spirit warns me that prison
and hardships are facing me.
• A contradiction?
• Acts 21:14 When he would not be dissuaded, we
gave up and said, "The Lord's will be done."

12. Acts 21:4, Through The Spirit
• Paul was within God’s will;
• Acts 23:1 Paul looked straight at the
Sanhedrin and said, "My brothers, I have
fulfilled my duty to God in all good conscience
to this day."
• Acts 23:11 The following night the Lord stood
near Paul and said, "Take courage! As you
have testified about me in Jerusalem, so you
must also testify in Rome."

13. Acts 21:5, On
The Beach We
Knelt To Pray

14. Acts 21:10-11, A Prophet Named Agabus
• Acts 21:10-11 …a prophet named Agabus came
down from Judea. 11 Coming over to us, he took
Paul's belt, tied his own hands and feet with it
and said, "The Holy Spirit says, 'In this way the
Jews of Jerusalem will bind the owner of this belt
and will hand him over to the Gentiles.'"
• A prophecy, not a discouragement.
• Acts 20:22 And now, compelled by the Spirit, I
am going to Jerusalem, not knowing what will
happen to me there.

15. Acts 21:18, James, And All The Elders
• Acts 21:18 The next day Paul and the rest of
us went to see James, and all the elders were
present.
• James, the lord’s ½ brother, didn’t believe
until post resurrection.

16. Acts 21:18-28, Peacemakers
• This is a good example of Biblical conflict resolution. They all
came together to discuss the problem and find a solution;
• 18 …Paul …James, and all the elders were present.
• 19 ..he …greeted them, he began to relate …
• 20 …they heard it… [the problem] …the Jews…believed…zealous
for the Law; 21 …you are teaching all the Jews…to forsake
Moses,…
• 22 "What, then, is to be done? [resolution presented]…
• 23…do this that we tell you…four men…under a vow; 24 take
them and purify yourself …[defuse the problem by showing
them you’re]…keeping the Law.
• 25 "But concerning the Gentiles who have believed …[this does
not change doctrine, they’re steadfast on that]…
• 26 Then Paul… [receives the suggestion, and does it]…

17. Acts 21:23, Peacemakers
• NAU Acts 21:23 "Therefore do this that we tell you. We
have four men who are under a vow;
• NAU Matthew 5:9 "Blessed are the peacemakers, for
they shall be called sons of God.
• NAU Romans 12:18 If possible, so far as it depends on
you, be at peace with all men.
• The problem is about religious practice or not to
practice (Rom 14). We have extreme freedom in Christ
(1 Corinthians 10:25-29, Galatians 5:1-16) and can
decide how we want to worship.
• The problem is not about doctrine like in Galatians 2.
Paul would have fought to the death if this was about
the gospel, soteriology, Christology, etc..

18. Acts 21:23, Acts Is A Transition Book
• NAU Acts 21:23…We have four men who are under
a vow;
• Acts 18:18 Paul…had his hair cut off at Cenchrea
because of a vow he had taken.
• Matt 5:36-37 And do not swear by your head, for
you cannot make even one hair white or black. 37
Simply let your 'Yes' be 'Yes,' and your 'No,' 'No';
anything beyond this comes from the evil one.
• James 5:12 Above all, my brothers, do not swear
— not by heaven or by earth or by anything else.
Let your "Yes" be yes, and your "No," no, or you
will be condemned.

19. Acts 21:24, Living In Obedience To The Law
• Acts 21:24 Take these men, join in their purification
rites and pay their expenses, so that they can have
their heads shaved. Then everybody will know there is
no truth in these reports about you, but that you
yourself are living in obedience to the law.
• Paul taught the Gentiles that circumcision and Jewish
customs were religiously irrelevant. Paul never taught
the Gentiles, or the Jews, to disregard Jewish customs
or to not circumcise.
• 1 Cor 9:20 To the Jews I became like a Jew, to win the
Jews. To those under the law I became like one under
the law (though I myself am not under the law), so as
to win those under the law.

20. Acts 21:24, Living In Obedience To The Law
• Acts 21:22-24 “Paul was not denying the finished
work of Christ by offering animal sacrifices. The
epistles Paul had already written by this time
(Gal., 1 and 2 Thes., 1 and 2 Cor., Rom.) make it
clear that such a denial was incomprehensible.
He must have looked on these sacrifices as
memorials. After all, this will be the significance
of millennial sacrifices (Ezek 43:18-46:24; Mal
1:11; 3:3-4). (6) Paul later asserted he did not
violate his own conscience (Acts 23:1).”
• Bible Knowledge Commentary

21. Acts 21:25, The Gentile Believers
• Acts 21:25 As for the Gentile believers, we
have written to them our decision that they
should abstain from food sacrificed to idols,
from blood, from the meat of strangled
animals and from sexual immorality."

22. Acts 18:18, Paul Was Keeping A Vow
• NAU Acts 18:18 Paul, having remained many days longer,
took leave of the brethren and put out to sea for Syria,
and with him were Priscilla and Aquila. In Cenchrea he
had his hair cut, for he was keeping a vow.
• NAU Deuteronomy 23:21 "When you make a vow to the
LORD your God, you shall not delay to pay it, for it
would be sin in you, and the LORD your God will surely
require it of you.
• I believe Paul is absolutely committed to get to
Jerusalem to offer that hair, and complete his vow.

23. Acts 21:26, Paul Offered A Sacrifice
• NAU Acts 21:26 Then Paul took the men, and the
next day, purifying himself along with them, went
into the temple giving notice of the completion of
the days of purification, until the sacrifice was
offered for each one of them.
• NAU Acts 16:3 Paul wanted this man [Timothy] to go
with him; and he took him and circumcised him
because of the Jews who were in those parts, for
they all knew that his father was a Greek. [This was
after the Acts 15, Jerusalem Council]

24. Keep The Law, Or Not?
Gentile Religious Ritual
• Do not have to keep the
law, but can if they want to.
• Either way matters not
concerning our position
before God.
• Our righteousness is in
Christ.
• Salvation is by grace
through faith alone.
Jewish Religious Ritual
• Do not have to keep the
law, but can if they want to.
• Either way matters not
concerning our position
before God.
• Our righteousness is in
Christ.
• Salvation is by grace
through faith alone.

25. Acts 21:28, The Dividing Wall Of Hostility
• Acts 21:28…he has brought Greeks into the temple
area and defiled this holy place.“
• Eph 2:14 For he himself is our peace, who has made
the two one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing
wall of hostility,
• Bible Knowledge Commentary, “These warned Gentiles
they would have themselves to blame for their deaths
which would certainly ensue if they would proceed
beyond the barrier (cf. Eph 2:14). So deep was this
feeling that the Romans gave permission to Jews to
fulfill this death sentence, even if the intruder was a
Roman citizen.”

26. ACTS 21:34
And some
cried one
thing some
another

27. Acts 21:37, Paul Knows Greek And
Hebrew At Least
• NAU Acts 21:37 As Paul was about to be
brought into the barracks, he said to the
commander, "May I say something to you?"
And he said, "Do you know Greek?
• NAU Acts 21:40 When he had given him
permission, Paul, standing on the stairs,
motioned to the people with his hand; and
when there was a great hush, he spoke to
them in the Hebrew dialect, saying,

28. TODAY'S CREATION MOMENT
WHAT LANGUAGES DID JESUS SPEAK?
• John 7:35b "…will He go unto the dispersed among the
Gentiles, and teach the Gentiles?"
• “What languages did Jesus speak during His ministry on
Earth? Of course He spoke Aramaic, since that was the
common language of the people He taught. When He
read from Isaiah in the synagogue in Nazareth, He
would have read it in Hebrew. But did Jesus also speak
Greek? Greek was in common use in Israel in the first
century. Greek inscriptions are frequently found in
Jewish graves from the period. This is evidence that
many Jews knew the Greek language. Some scholars
point to some of the terms in Jesus' recorded

29. TODAY'S CREATION MOMENT
WHAT LANGUAGES DID JESUS SPEAK?
• sayings that have Greek origins; however, their
arguments are not universally accepted. But Jesus did
grow up in Nazareth, which is in "Galilee of the
Gentiles," where Greek as well as Aramaic would have
been spoken. Nazareth was only an hour's walk from
Sepphoris, where one would have to speak Greek to do
business. As scholars point out, Jesus was educated
and as a carpenter, He was a skilled artisan. He would
have to speak Greek to deal with customers. At one
point His disciples wondered whether He would go to
teach the Gentiles, a task that would require Greek.
Language is a gift of God. It is through this gift that God
gives us the greater gift of His saving Gospel which
assures us of the forgiveness of sins through Jesus
Christ.”

30. Acts 13:8, is translated?
• NAU Acts 13:8 But Elymas the magician (for so his name
is translated) was opposing them, seeking to turn the
proconsul away from the faith.
• <1681> Ἐλύμας Elumas,… Origin: of Ara. or Arab. or.
• What languages did Jesus, and the apostles speak,
read, and transact business in? Greek, Aramaic,
Hebrew, for sure;
• NAU John 19:20 Therefore this inscription many of the
Jews read, for the place where Jesus was crucified was
near the city; and it was written in Hebrew, Latin, and
in Greek. 21 And so the chief priests of the Jews were
saying to Pilate, "Do not write, 'The King of the Jews';
but that He said, 'I am King of the Jews.'"
• Ezr. 4:7, 18, Matt. 1:23, Mk. 5:41, 15:22, 34, Jn. 1:38, 41-42, 9:7, Acts 4:36, 9:36, 13:8, 21:37, 40

31. What Language Did Jesus Speak?
• R. Steven Notley writes, “…. What language did
Jesus speak? "...The inscriptional and literary
evidence reflects a reality not unlike what we find
with the Dead Sea Scrolls. Of the 700 non-biblical
texts from the Qumran library, 120 are in Aramaic
and 28 in Greek, while 550 scrolls were written in
Hebrew....”
Author: R. Steven Notley, Ph.D. (Hebrew University) is Distinguished Professor of
New Testament and Christian Origins, and Director of Graduate Programs in
Ancient Judaism and Christian Origins on the New York City Campus of Nyack
College.
Source: http://mosaicmagazine.com/picks/2014/05/judean-lingo/
• http://jewishstudies.eteacherbiblical.com/holiness-bibi-right-jesus-spoke-hebrew/

32. Acts 21:40, He Said To Them In Aramaic
• Acts 21:40 Having received the commander's permission, Paul stood on the steps and
motioned to the crowd. When they were all silent, he said to them in Aramaic NIV
• NIV NET in Aramaic
• KJV NAU CSB ESV NAS NKJ Hebrew
• Strong’s, 1446 Ἑβραΐς Hebrais {heb-rah-is'}
• Meaning: 1) Hebrew, the Hebrew language, not that
however in which the OT was written but the Chaldee,
which at the time of Jesus and the apostles had long
superseded it in Palestine…
• NET Bible Notes, 163 tn Grk "in the Hebrew dialect, saying." This
refers to the Aramaic spoken in Palestine in the 1st century
(BDAG 270 s.v. Ἑβραΐς).

33. Techy Problems
1st Person: "Do you know anything about this fax-machine?"
2nd Person: "A little. What's wrong?"
1st Person: "Well, I sent a fax, and the recipient called back
to say all she received was a cover-sheet and a blank page. I
tried it again, and the same thing happened."
2nd Person: "How did you load the sheet?"
1st Person: "It's a pretty sensitive memo, and I didn't want
anyone else to read it by accident,
so I folded it so only the recipient would open it and read it."

34. Keep
Lookin’
Up

35. Closing Prayer

36. Hebrew Had No Written Vowels
• NAU Acts 21:40 When he had given him
permission, Paul, standing on the stairs,
motioned to the people with his hand; and
when there was a great hush, he spoke to
them in the Hebrew dialect, saying,