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 further brought Greeks also into the temple, and has polluted this holy place.
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
And yet in Christ's time there came up (Greeks) to worship John 12:20: true, but here it speaks of Greeks who had no mind to worship. And they seized Paul, etc.
Mark their habitual conduct, how turbulent we everywhere find it, how men who with or without reason make a clamor in the midst. For they had seen before with him in the city Trophimus an Ephesian, whom they supposed that Paul had brought into the temple. And all the city was moved, and the people ran together: and they took Paul, and drew him out of the temple and immediately the doors were shut. (v. 29, 30.) Men of Israel, it says, help: this is the man that (teaches) against the people, and the law, and this place.— the things which most trouble them, the Temple and the Law. And Paul does not tax the Apostles with being the cause of these things to him. And they drew him, it says, out of the Temple: and the doors were shut. For they wished to kill him; and therefore were dragging him out, to do this with greater security. And as they went about to kill him, tidings came unto the tribune of the cohort, that all Jerusalem was in an uproar. Who immediately took soldiers and centurions,...
