Acts 21:1-36 Video Teaching – Pastor Zachary Murphy

Outline

Acts 21:1-6
- Paul and his travel companions go to Tyre on way to Jerusalem
- Before Tyre:
  - Cos
  - Rhodes
  - Patara
  - Phoenicia
  - Cyprus
  - Syria
  - Tyre
- Paul sought out other believers
- Acts 21:4 (MSG)
- Acts 20:23
- When leaving they all knelt and prayed
  - Reverence to God
    - Hebrews 12:28
Acts 21:7-16
- Travel Tyre to Ptolemais is 20 miles south. They stay here for a day
- Travel 40 miles to Caesarea, likely by ship
- They stayed at the house of Philip the evangelist
  - One of the 7
    - Acts 6:1-5
  - Daughters had the gift of Prophecy.
- Agabus comes and prophecies how Paul will be treated symbolically.
  - Intro to Agabus (Prophet) Acts 11:28
- Psalm 115:13
- Regardless of others Paul still intends to go to Jerusalem
  - “Thy will be done”
- They travel 63 miles from Caesarea to Jerusalem
- They stay at Mnasons home likely halfway
Acts 21:17-26
- They arrive at Jerusalem
- Were received gladly.
- Paul joins men who took a vow for purification.
  - Paul goes with them to the temple the next day.
Acts 21:27-36
- Jews who knew Paul from Ephesus decided to yell in the temple about Paul’s teachings near the end of the 7-day purification.
- Paul is dragged and locked out of the temple.
- Guard captain comes to investigate and takes Paul back to barracks to determine what is going on.