27 And when the aseven days
were almost ended, the Jews which were of
Asiaa, when they saw him in the
temple, stirred up all the people, and laid hands on him,
28 Crying out, Men of Israel, help: This is
the man, that teacheth all men every where against the people, and the
law, and this place: and further brought Greeks also into the
atemple, and hath bpolluted this holy
place.
29 (For they had seen before with him in the
city aTrophimus an Ephesian, whom they supposed that Paul
had brought into the temple.)
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27a the Jews which were of Asia
It was a odd mix of sects which still worshipped in and at the temple. There
were all the sects of the traditional Jews, Saducesee and Pharisees included;
there were then the 'Christian Mix' of Christ believeing Jews who also still
did hold to and keep the Law of Abraham or Moses in their temple worship, and
then also there were Paul's Christians, part Jews who having lived with and
worshipped with the Gentiles Jews knew that the Law of Moses had passed, yet
in part they kept certain traditions of the Jews as they were Jews though they
understood that they need not do so, and of course there were the Gentiles,
who if they kept not the 'Law of Moses', were not allowed to enter into the
Temple, as they were uncircumcized and not Jews. These 'Jews from Asia' would
be those of the Traditional Jews who accepted not Christ and would oppose
Paul in his mission field and resented Paul being in the temple as they knew
he taught 'against' the Law of Moses in that the Law had been fullfilled in
Christ and was no longer necessary to be kept. Thus Paul in the temple was
confronted and taken as led by these 'enemy' Jews from the Asian (Asia Minor)
mission field of Paul who knew of Paul and his teaching of Christ and the
'new' Christianity which 'replaced' or fulfilled the Law of Moses.
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