Acts 21:4

Having found disciples, we stayed there seven days. These said to Paul through the Spirit, that he should not go up to Jerusalem.

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WEBBE

Having found disciples, we stayed there seven days. These said to Paul through the Spirit that he should not go up to Jerusalem.

BSB

We sought out the disciples in Tyre and stayed with them seven days. Through the Spirit they kept telling Paul not to go up to Jerusalem.

KJV

And finding disciples, we tarried there seven days: who said to Paul through the Spirit, that he should not go up to Jerusalem.

ASV

And having found the disciples, we tarried there seven days: and these said to Paul through the Spirit, that he should not set foot in Jerusalem.

BBE

And meeting the disciples we were there for seven days: and they gave Paul orders through the Spirit not to go up to Jerusalem.

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καὶ kai and G2532 Ἀνευρόντες Aneurontes Having sought out G429 δὲ de then G1161 τοὺς tous the G3588 μαθητὰς mathētas disciples G3101 ἐπεμείναμεν epemeinamen we remained G1961 αὐτοῦ autou there G847 ἡμέρας hēmeras days G2250 ἑπτά hepta seven G2033 οἵτινες oitines who G3748 τῷ tō (the) G3588 Παύλῳ Paulō to Paul G3972 ἔλεγον elegon were telling G3004 διὰ dia through G1223 τοῦ tou the G3588 πνεύματος pneumatos Spirit G4151 μὴ mē not G3361 ἐπιβαίνειν epibainein to go up G1910 εἰς eis to G1519 Ἱεροσόλυμα Hi'erosoluma Jerusalem G2414

The early church

"For there the ship was to unlade her burden. And finding disciples, we tarried there seven days: who said to Paul through the Spirit, that he should not go up to Jerusalem." They too prophesy of the afflictions. It is so ordered that they should be spoken by them also, that none might imagine that Paul said those things without cause, and only by way of boasting. "We landed at Tyre." Then they tarry with the brethren seven days. Now that they were come near to Jerusalem, they no longer run. "Who said to Paul through the Spirit, that he should not go up to Jerusalem." Observe how, when the Spirit does not forbid, he complies. "By the Spirit," that is, they knowing "by the Spirit" what would be the consequences, said to him: for of course it does not mean that the exhortation they made was by the Spirit. For they did not simply foretell to him the dangers through the Spirit, but added of themselves that it behooved him not to go up - sparing him.
John Chrysostom · d. 407Homilies on Acts

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 1–7

Providence must be acknowledged when our affairs go on well. Wherever Paul came, he inquired what disciples were there, and found them out. Foreseeing his troubles, from love to him, and concern for the church, they wrongly thought it would be most for the glory of God that he should continue at liberty; but their earnestness to dissuade him from it, renders his pious resolution the more illustrious. He has taught us by example, as well as by rule, to pray always, to pray without ceasing. Their last farewell was sweetened with prayer.

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Paul Jerusalem

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ProphetsPaulSevenDisobedience To GodRashnessDisciple

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