ACTS 21:38 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Art not thou that Egyptian, which before these days madest an uproar, and leddest out into the wilderness four thousand men that were murderers?”
'Are you not the Egyptian who some time ago stirred up a revolt and led the four thousand men of the Assassins out into the wilderness?'— the commander mistakes Paul for an Egyptian false prophet documented by Josephus, who led a messianic rebellion. The confusion reveals how volatile Jerusalem had become in Paul's era.
Church Fathers on Acts 21:38
May I speak unto you? he says. Who said, Can you speak Greek? Are you not then that Egyptian, which before these days made an uproar, and leddest out into the wilderness four thousand men that were murderers? Acts 21:38 For (this Egyptian) was a revolutionary and seditious person. With regard to this then Paul clears himself, and * * (Recapitulation.) Do therefore this that we say unto you, etc. (v. 23, 24.) He shows that it was not necessary to do this upon principle…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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