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Taking The Opportunity To Do Wrong

Acts 21:27-29

When the seven days were nearly over, some Jews from the province of Asia saw Paul at the temple. They stirred up the whole crowd and seized him, shouting, 'Fellow Israelites, help us! This is the man who teaches everyone everywhere against our people and our law and this place. And besides, he has brought Greeks into the temple and defiled this holy place.' (They had previously seen Trophimus the Ephesian in the city with Paul and assumed that Paul had brought him into the temple.) (NIVUK)

Paul had voluntarily submitted to the Jerusalem elders' request to undergo a purification vow with four local men at the temple (Acts 21:20-24). It was an attempt to show that he had not abandoned his traditional Jewish roots in the Old Testament law, but wanted Jesus to be seen as their fulfilment. The seven-day period of self-discipline was almost complete when some of the religious people, who had stirred up trouble for Paul during his missionary journeys (Acts 13:50; Acts 14:5; Acts 14:16-19; Acts 17:5-8; Acts 17:13), travelled to Jerusalem for Pentecost and saw him in the temple.