And when he came to the steps, he was actually carried by the soldiers because of the violence of the crowd,
We have here Paul brought into a captivity which we are not likely to see the end of; for after this he is either hurried from one bar to another, or lies neglected, first in one prison and then in another, and can neither be tried nor bailed. When we see the beginning of a trouble, we know not either how long it will last or how it will issue.
Commenting on Acts 21:27-40
And when he came upon the stairs,.... Or steps, which led up to the castle; for it was built upon a very high place, as appears from the account of it in the preceding verse; to which agrees what Aristaeas (g) says of it in the following words; "in order to have knowledge of all things, we went up to a castle adjoining to the...
Verse 35. Upon the stairs. The stairs which led from the temple to the tower of Antonia. Josephus says, (Jewish Wars, b. v. chap. 5, 8,) that the tower of Antonia "was situated at the corner of two cloisters of the court of the temple--of that on the west, and of that on the north; it was erected on a rock of fifty cubits...