Acts 21:40

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And when he had given him licence, Paul stood on the stairs, and beckoned with the hand unto the people. And when there was made a great silence, he spake unto them in the Hebrew tongue, saying,

On

Acts 21:35

2 Kings 9:13

And beckoned

Acts 12:17

Acts 13:16

Acts 19:33

A great

Acts 22:2

Hebrew

Revelation 16:16

Bible References

On

When Paul got to the steps, he had to be carried by the soldiers because of the mob’s violence,

Each man quickly took his garment and put it under Jehu on the bare steps.

They blew the ram’s horn and proclaimed, “Jehu is king!”

And beckoned

Motioning to them with his hand to be silent, he explained to them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. “Report these things to James

and the brothers,” he said. Then he departed and went to a different place.

Then Paul stood up and motioned with his hand and said: “Men of Israel, and you who fear God, listen!

Then some of the crowd gave Alexander advice when the Jews pushed him to the front. So motioning with his hand, Alexander wanted to make his defense to the people.

A great

When they heard that he was addressing them in the Hebrew language, they became even quieter.

Hebrew

In those days, as the number of the disciples was multiplying, there arose a complaint by the Hellenistic Jews against the Hebraic Jews that their widows were being overlooked in the daily distribution.

We all fell to the ground, and I heard a voice speaking to me in the Hebrew language, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.’

An inscription was above Him:

THIS IS

THE KING OF THE JEWS.

By the Sheep Gate in Jerusalem there is a pool, called Bethesda in Hebrew, which has five colonnades.

When Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus outside. He sat down on the judge’s bench in a place called the Stone Pavement (but in Hebrew Gabbatha).

They had as their king the angel of the abyss; his name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek he has the name Apollyon.

So they assembled them at the place called in Hebrew, Armagedon.