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Acts 21:29

For they had before seen with him in the city Trophimus the Ephesian, whom they supposed that Paul had brought into the temple.

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Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Bigotry;   Fraternity;   Intolerance, Religious;   Minister, Christian;   Paul;   Prisoners;   Temple;   Trophimus;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Gentiles;   Temple, the Second;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Lysias;   Temple;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Anger;   Dispersion;   Paul;   Temple;   Tychicus;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Ordination;   Syrian Christians;   Worship of God;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Ephesus;   John;   Temple, Herod's;   Trophimus;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Ephesus;   Lysias Claudius;   Timothy, the Second Epistle to;   Trophimus;   Tychicus;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Crimes and Punishments;   Temple of Jerusalem;   Trophimus;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ephesus;   Trophimus;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Court ;   Justice (2);   Sopater ;   Trophimus ;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Ephesians ;   Miletum, Miletus ;   Trophimus ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Trophimus;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Eph'esus;   Troph'imus;   Tych'icus;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Timotheus;   Trophimus;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Saul of Tarsus;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Ephesian;   Grecians;   Partition, the Middle Wall of;   Tertullus;   Trophimus;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
For they had previously seen Trophimus the Ephesian in the city with him, and they supposed that Paul had brought him into the temple.
King James Version (1611)
(For they had seene before with him in the citie, Trophimus an Ephesian, whome they supposed that Paul had brought into the Temple.)
King James Version
(For they had seen before with him in the city Trophimus an Ephesian, whom they supposed that Paul had brought into the temple.)
English Standard Version
For they had previously seen Trophimus the Ephesian with him in the city, and they supposed that Paul had brought him into the temple.
New American Standard Bible
For they had previously seen Trophimus the Ephesian in the city with him, and they thought that Paul had brought him into the temple.
New Century Version
(They said this because they had seen Trophimus, a man from Ephesus, with Paul in Jerusalem. They thought that Paul had brought him into the Temple.)
Amplified Bible
For they had previously seen Trophimus the Ephesian in the city with Paul, and they assumed that he had brought the man into the temple [beyond the court of the Gentiles].
New American Standard Bible (1995)
For they had previously seen Trophimus the Ephesian in the city with him, and they supposed that Paul had brought him into the temple.
Legacy Standard Bible
For they had previously seen Trophimus the Ephesian in the city with him, and they supposed that Paul had brought him into the temple.
Berean Standard Bible
For they had previously seen Trophimus the Ephesian with him in the city, and they assumed that Paul had brought him into the temple.
Contemporary English Version
Some of them thought that Paul had brought Trophimus from Ephesus into the temple, because they had seen them together in the city.
Complete Jewish Bible
(They had previously seen Trophimus from Ephesus in the city with him and assumed that Sha'ul had brought him into the Temple.)
Darby Translation
For they had before seen Trophimus the Ephesian with him in the city, whom they supposed that Paul had brought into the temple.
Easy-to-Read Version
(The Jews said this because they had seen Trophimus with Paul in Jerusalem. Trophimus was a man from Ephesus. The Jews thought that Paul had taken him into the holy area of the Temple.)
Geneva Bible (1587)
For they had seene before Trophimus an Ephesian with him in the citie, whom they supposed that Paul had brought into the Temple.
George Lamsa Translation
For they had previously seen Troph''imus, the E-phe''sian, with him in the city, and they thought he had entered into the temple with Paul.
Good News Translation
(They said this because they had seen Trophimus from Ephesus with Paul in the city, and they thought that Paul had taken him into the Temple.)
Lexham English Bible
(For they had previously seen Trophimus the Ephesian in the city with him, whom they thought that Paul had brought into the temple.)
Literal Translation
For they had before seen Trophimus the Ephesian in the city with him, whom they supposed that Paul brought into the temple.
American Standard Version
For they had before seen with him in the city Trophimus the Ephesian, whom they supposed that Paul had brought into the temple.
Bible in Basic English
For they had seen him before in the town with Trophimus of Ephesus, and had the idea that Paul had taken him with him into the Temple.
Hebrew Names Version
For they had seen Trophimus, the Ephesian, with him in the city, and they supposed that Sha'ul had brought him into the temple.
International Standard Version
For they had earlier seen Trophimus the Ephesian in the city with him and had supposed that Paul had taken him into the temple.Acts 20:4;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
For they had before seen with him Trophimus the Ephesian in the city, and supposed that with Paulos he had entered the temple.
Murdock Translation
For they had previously seen with him in the city Trophimus the Ephesian; and they supposed, that he had entered the temple with Paul.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
For they had seene before with hym in the citie Trophimus an Ephesian, whom they supposed that Paul had brought into the temple.
English Revised Version
For they had before seen with him in the city Trophimus the Ephesian, whom they supposed that Paul had brought into the temple.
World English Bible
For they had seen Trophimus, the Ephesian, with him in the city, and they supposed that Paul had brought him into the temple.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
For they had before seen Trophimus the Ephesian with him in the city, whom they supposed Paul had brought into the temple.
Weymouth's New Testament
(For they had previously seen Trophimus the Ephesian with him in the city, and imagined that Paul had brought him into the Temple.)
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For thei seyen Trofimus of Effesi in the citee with hym, whom thei gessiden that Poul hadde brouyt in to the temple.
Webster's Bible Translation
(For they had seen before with him in the city, Trophimus, an Ephesian, whom they supposed that Paul had brought into the temple.)
New English Translation
(For they had seen Trophimus the Ephesian in the city with him previously, and they assumed Paul had brought him into the inner temple courts.)
New King James Version
(For they had previously [fn] seen Trophimus the Ephesian with him in the city, whom they supposed that Paul had brought into the temple.)
New Living Translation
(For earlier that day they had seen him in the city with Trophimus, a Gentile from Ephesus, and they assumed Paul had taken him into the Temple.)
New Life Bible
They had seen him before in the city with Trophimus who was from the city of Ephesus. They thought Paul had brought him into the house of God also.
New Revised Standard
For they had previously seen Trophimus the Ephesian with him in the city, and they supposed that Paul had brought him into the temple.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For they had before seen Trophimus, the Ephesian, in the city along with him, whom they were supposing, Paul, had brought, into the temple.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(For they had seen Trophimus the Ephesian in the city with him. whom they supposed that Paul had brought into the temple.)
Revised Standard Version
For they had previously seen Troph'imus the Ephesian with him in the city, and they supposed that Paul had brought him into the temple.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
For they sawe one Trophimus an Ephesian with him in the cyte. Him they supposed Paul had brought into the teple.
Young's Literal Translation
for they had seen before Trophimus, the Ephesian, in the city with him, whom they were supposing that Paul brought into the temple.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For they had sene Trophimus the Ephesian with him in the cite, him they thoughte yt Paul had broughte in to the temple.
Mace New Testament (1729)
(for having seen Trophimus an Ephesian with him in the city, they imagin'd Paul had conducted him into the temple.)
Simplified Cowboy Version
They said this because one time in Ephesus they saw him with a Gentile and had just assumed he had brought him to the main church.

Contextual Overview

27 And when the seven days were almost completed, the Jews from Asia, when they saw him in the temple, stirred up all the multitude and laid hands on him, 28 crying out, Men of Israel, help: This is the man that teaches all men everywhere against the people, and the law, and this place; and moreover he brought Greeks also into the temple, and has defiled this holy place. 29 For they had before seen with him in the city Trophimus the Ephesian, whom they supposed that Paul had brought into the temple. 30 And all the city was moved, and the people ran together; and they laid hold on Paul, and dragged him out of the temple: and immediately the doors were shut. 31 And as they were seeking to kill him, tidings came up to the Colonel of the Battalion, All Jerusalem is in confusion. 32 And forthwith he took soldiers and captains, and ran down on them: and they, when they saw the colonel and the soldiers, left off beating Paul. 33 Then the colonel came near, and laid hold on him, and commanded him to be bound with two chains; and inquired who he was, and what he had done. 34 And some shouted one thing, some another, among the crowd: and when he could not know the certainty for the uproar, he commanded him to be brought into the castle. 35 And when he came on the stairs, so it was that he was borne of the soldiers for the violence of the crowd; 36 for the multitude of the people followed after, crying out, "Away with him."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Trophimus: Acts 20:4, 2 Timothy 4:20

Reciprocal: Nehemiah 13:7 - in preparing

Cross-References

Genesis 33:8
And he said, What do you mean by all this company which I met? And he said, To find favor in the sight of my lord.
Exodus 12:26
And it shall come to pass, when your sons shall say to you, What do you mean by this service?
1 Samuel 15:14
And Samuel said, What then is this bleating of the sheep in my ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For they had seen before with him in the city,.... Not of Ephesus, but of Jerusalem:

Trophimus an Ephesian; the same that is mentioned in Acts 20:4 whom these Jews of Asia, and who very probably were inhabitants of Ephesus, knew very well to be a Gentile:

whom they supposed Paul had brought into the temple; for seeing him walk with the apostle very familiarly through the streets of Jerusalem, they concluded from thence, that he took him with him into the temple, which was a very rash and ill grounded conclusion; and which shows the malignity and virulence of their minds, and how ready they were to make use of any opportunity, and take up any occasion against him, even a bare surmise, and which had no show of probability in it; for it can never be thought, that while Paul was using methods to remove the prejudices of the Jews against him, he should take such a step as this, to introduce a Gentile into the holy place, which he knew was unlawful, and would greatly irritate and provoke them.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

In the city - In Jerusalem. As he was with Paul, it was inferred that he would attend him everywhere.

Trophimus - He had accompanied Paul on his way from Ephesus, Acts 20:4.

Whom they supposed ... - This is a most striking illustration of the manner in which accusations are often brought against others. They had seen him with Paul in the city; they inferred, therefore, that he had been with him in the temple. They did not even pretend that they had seen him in the temple; but the inference was enough to inflame the angry and excitable passions of the multitude. So in the accusations which people now often make of others. They see one thing, they infer another; they could testify to one thing, but they conclude that another thing will also be true, and that other thing they charge on them as the truth. If people would state facts as they are, no small part of the slanderous accusations against others would cease. An end would be made of the most of the charges of falsehood, error, heresy, dishonesty, double-dealing, and immorality. If a statement is made, it should be of the thing as it was. If we attempt to say what a man has done, it should not be what we suppose he has done. If we attempt to state what he believes, it should not be what we suppose he believes.


 
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