Acts 21

     21:8.  Philip, “one of the seven,” cf. Acts 6:5.

     21:10.  Agabus, Acts 11:28.

     21:11, 14.  Ordinarily, Paul was very willing to change plans to avoid foreseeable trouble, but not in this case.  He had many warnings by the Holy Spirit that serious trouble was ahead in Jerusalem, but evidently he also knew that this time it was the Lord’s will that he submit to it, and like Jesus, “he set his face to go to Jerusalem”  (Luke 9:51).

     21:21.  These accusations were not true (cf.24).

     21:24-26.  See Nu.6 for the law governing the Nazarite vow.  The expenses involved were the sacrifices and offerings.

     21:27.  The troublemakers were not the believers who had heard bad rumors (20-21), but the frustrated and angry unbelieving Jews from Asia, perhaps stung by the backlash from the Ephesian riot (29; Acts 19:23ff).

     21:39.  The commander should have been impressed by the mention of Tarsus, as it was a free Roman city, which meant that Paul was a Roman citizen, and was to be treated with dignity (but see 22:27-28).