Church elders in Jerusalem ask Paul to help men fulfill a Nazirite vow, to dispel rumors he has apostatized his Jewishness.

(1) In Acts 21:23-24, Paul submitted to a vow as a way of showing his identification with Israel and his regard for the law. Commitments like the Nazarite vow ...

Pulpit Commentary. Verse 23. - Which have a vow; meaning emphatically the vow of a Nazarite. Acts 21:23. Vincent's Word Studies. A vow. The Nazarite vow. See ...

This is said not as commanding, but as advising; and not to what was a duty, and necessary to be done as such, but as a point of prudence.

In Acts 21-23, we see that Jesus worked through Paul to show that his own journey to Jerusalem to be persecuted was not only for the Jews, but also for the ...

In Acts, Paul's mission faces scrutiny among Jewish believers in Jerusalem, leading to a strategic plan to bridge gaps between him and the Jewish community.

To walk, in the Scriptures, often denotes "to live, to act, to conduct in a certain manner." All, probably, that they wished Paul to show by this was, that he ...

It would seem that the specific warning not to go up to Jerusalem was a human interpretation of the Holy Spirit's prophecy of the danger that awaited Paul.

The four men in question were under the vow of Nazariteship; and that the days of their vow were nearly at an end, as they were about to shave their heads. Coffman's Commentaries on... · Smith's Bible Commentary

10 дек. 2023 г. · He instructed Paul to take four other Jewish men who were under a vow and pay their way for purification and keeping their vow in the temple.