Kisah Para Rasul 21:21

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Tetapi mereka mendengar tentang engkau, bahwa engkau mengajar semua orang Yahudi yang tinggal di antara bangsa-bangsa lain untuk melepaskan hukum Musa, sebab engkau mengatakan, supaya mereka jangan menyunatkan anak-anaknya dan jangan hidup menurut adat istiadat kita.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Tetapi mereka mendengar tentang engkau, bahwa engkau mengajar semua orang Yahudi yang tinggal di antara bangsa-bangsa lain untuk melepaskan hukum Musa, sebab engkau mengatakan, supaya mereka jangan menyunatkan anak-anaknya dan jangan hidup menurut adat istiadat kita.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Tetapi dari hal engkau telah dikabarkan orang kepada mereka itu, bahwa engkau mengajarkan segala orang Yahudi, yang duduk di antara orang kafir itu, berpaling daripada Musa, mengatakan: Jangan menyunatkan anak-anaknya atau menurut adat istiadatnya;

Contextual Overview

¹⁵ And after those dayes, we toke vp our burthens, and went vp to Hierusalem. ¹⁶ There went with vs also [certayne] of the disciples of Cesarea, & brought with them one Mnason of Cyprus, an olde disciple, with whom we shoulde lodge. ¹⁷ And when we were come to Hierusalem, the brethren receaued vs gladly. ¹⁸ And on the morowe, Paule went in with vs vnto Iames, and all the elders came together. ¹⁹ And when he had saluted them, he tolde by order all thinges that God had wrought among the gentiles by his ministerie. ²⁰ And when they hearde it, they glorified the Lorde, & sayde vnto hym: Thou seest brother, howe many thousande Iewes there are which beleue, & they are all earnest folowers of the lawe. ²¹ And they are infourmed of thee, that thou teachest all the Iewes whiche are among the Gentiles to forsake Moyses, and sayest that they ought not to circucise their chyldren, neither to walke after the customes. ²² What is it therefore? The multitude must needes come together: For they shall heare that thou art come. ²³ Do therfore this that we saye to thee. We haue foure men, which haue a vow on them: ²⁴ Them take, & purifie thy selfe with them, and do coste on them, that they may shaue their heades: And all shall knowe, that those thynges whiche they haue hearde concernyng thee, are nothyng, but that thou thy selfe also walkest and kepest the lawe.

Bible Verse Review
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that thou: Acts 6:13, Acts 6:14, Acts 16:3, Acts 28:17, Romans 14:1-6, 1 Corinthians 9:19-21, Galatians 5:1-6, Galatians 6:12-15

Reciprocal: Mark 7:5 - General John 7:35 - the dispersed Acts 21:28 - This is Acts 26:3 - because 1 Corinthians 11:16 - such Galatians 4:12 - be Galatians 5:11 - why

Cross-References

Genesis 21:3
And Abraham called his sonnes name that was borne vnto him, whiche Sara bare hym, Isahac.

Genesis 21:4
And Abraham circumcised his sonne Isahac, when he was eyght dayes olde, as God commaunded him.

Genesis 21:34
And Abraham soiourned in the Philistines lande a long season.

Numbers 10:12
And the children of Israel toke their iourney out of the desert of Sinai, and the cloude rested in the wildernesse of Pharan.

Numbers 12:16
And afterwarde the people remoued from Hazeroth, and pitched in the wyldernesse of Pharan.

Numbers 13:3
And Moyses at the commaundement of the Lorde, sent foorth out of the wyldernesse of Pharan, suche men as were all heades of the chyldren of Israel.

Numbers 13:26
And they went, and came to Moyses and Aaron, and vnto all the multitude of the chyldren of Israel in the wyldernesse Pharan to Cades, and brought them worde, and also vnto all the congregation, and shewed them the fruite of the lande.

Judges 14:2
And he came vp, and told his father and his mother, & said: I haue sene a woman in Thamnath of the daughters of the Philistines: & nowe geue me her to wyfe.

1 Samuel 25:1
And Samuel died, and all the Israelites gathered together, and lamented him, and buried him in his owne house at Rama. And Dauid arose, & went downe to the wildernesse of Pharan.

1 Corinthians 7:38
So then he that ioyneth his virgin in maryage, doth well: but he that ioyneth not [his virgin] in mariage, doth better.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And they are informed of thee,.... By persons that came from the several parts of the Gentile world, where the apostle had been preaching; and by letters which came from the Jews in those parts, who were no friends to the apostle's ministry:

that thou teachest all the Jews which are among the Gentiles, to forsake Moses: or "apostatize from Moses"; that is, the law of Moses; that he taught the Gentiles not to regard the rituals of the law of Moses gave them no uneasiness; but that he should teach the Jews that were scattered among the Gentiles, and as many of them that believed in Christ, to disregard and drop the observance of them, who had been always brought up in them, this they could not bear; and that the apostle so taught, they had credible information: particularly,

saying, that they ought not to circumcise their children; though this does not appear; it is true the apostle taught that circumcision was abolished, and that it was nothing; yea, that to submit to it as necessary to salvation, was hurtful and pernicious; but as a thing indifferent, he allowed of it among weak brethren; and in condescension to their weakness, did administer it himself; in which he became a Jew to the Jew, that he might gain some:

neither to walk after the customs; either of the law of Moses, meaning other rites there enjoined, besides circumcision; or of their fathers, and their country, the traditions of the elders, which as yet they had not got clear of; the disuse of old customs is not easily brought about, or it is not easy to bring persons off of them.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And they are informed of thee - Reports respecting the conduct of Paul would be likely to be in circulation among all at Jerusalem. His remarkable conversion, his distinguished zeal, his success among the Gentiles, would make his conduct a subject of special interest. Evil-minded men among the Jews, who came up to Jerusalem from different places where he had been, would be likely to represent him as the decided enemy of the laws of Moses, and these reports would be likely to reach the ears of the Jewish converts. The reports, as they gained ground, would be greatly magnified, until suspicion might be excited among the Christians at Jerusalem that he was, as he was reputed to be, the settled foe of the Jewish rites and customs.

That thou teachest all the Jews ... - From all the evidence which we have of his conduct, this report was incorrect and slanderous. The truth appears to have been, that he did not enjoin the observance of those laws on the Gentile converts; that the effect of his ministry on them was to lead them to suppose that their observance was not necessary - contrary to the doctrines of the Judaizing teachers (see Acts 15:0); and that he argued with the Jews themselves, where it could be done, against the obligation of those laws and customs since the Messiah had come. The Jews depended on their observance for justification and salvation. This Paul strenuously opposed; and this view he defended at length in the Epistles which he wrote. See the Epistles to the Romans, the Galatians, and the Hebrews. Yet these facts might be easily misunderstood and perverted, so as to give rise to the slanderous report that he was the enemy of Moses and the Law.

Which are among the Gentiles - Who live in pagan countries. The Jews were extensively scattered and settled in all the large towns and cities of the Roman empire.

To forsake Moses - The Law and the authority of Moses. That is, to regard his laws as no longer binding.

To walk after the customs - To observe the institutions of the Mosaic ritual. See the notes on Acts 6:14. The word “customs” denotes “the rites of the Mosaic economy the offering of sacrifices, incense, the oblations, anointings, festivals, etc., which the Law of Moses prescribed.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Acts 21:21. Thou teachest - to forsake Moses, c.] From any thing that appears in the course of this book to the contrary, this information was incorrect: we do not find Paul preaching thus to the Jews. It is true that, in his epistles, some of which had been written before this time, he showed that circumcision and uncircumcision were equally unavailable for the salvation, of the soul, and that by the deeds of the law no man could be justified but he had not yet said to any Jew, forsake Moses, and do not circumcise your children. He told them that Jesus Christ had delivered them from the yoke of the law; but they had, as yet, liberty to wear that yoke, if they pleased. He had shown them that their ceremonies were useless but not destructive; that they were only dangerous when they depended on them for salvation. This is the sum of what Paul had taught on this subject.