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Acts 21

Acts 21 ( Acts • Chapter 21 (40 verses)): And it came to pass, that after we were gotten from them, and had launched, we came with a straight course unto Coos, and the day following unto Rhodes , and from thence unto Patara : And finding a ship sailing over unto Phoenicia , we went aboard, and set forth. Now when we had dis... Mentions: Yeshua the Messiah , James ( Jacob ), Moses , Jacob/Israel , Rhodes , Patara , Phoenicia , Cyprus , Syria . Within the broader Biblical Knowledge Graph, this connects directly to Early Church, Acts & Pauline Epistles—Following the ascension of Yeshua and the outpouring of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost in Acts 1 –2, the apostolic community spread from Jerusalem and Judea to Samaria , Antioch , Corinth , Ephesus , and Rome , documented across Acts and the twenty-one New Testament Epistles.

Biblical Geography & Sacred Architecture

Key geographical locations connected to this topic include Macedonia (region. Referenced in Acts 16:9 , Acts 16:10 , Acts 16:12 , Acts 18:5 , Acts 19:21 .) Ephesus (Ancient biblical location referenced in Acts 18:19 , Acts 18:21 , Acts 18:24 , Acts 19:1 , Acts 19:17 , Acts 19:26 .) Achaia (region. Referenced in Acts 18:12 , Acts 18:27 , Acts 19:21 , Rom 15:26 , 1 Cor 16:15 .) Rome (Ancient biblical location referenced in Acts 2:10 , Acts 18:2 , Acts 19:21 , Acts 23:11 , Acts 28:14 , Acts 28:16 .) 3D Sanctuary Reconstructions: Widow's Mite ( Alexander Jannaeus Prutah ) — Small bronze Hasmonean prutah/lepton minted in Jerusalem under King Alexander Jannaeus that remained the smallest denomination bronze coin in daily circulation during the first century AD—universalized in the Gospels as the 'widow's mite' cast into the Temple treasury ( Mark 12:42 ; Luke 21:2 ).

Scripture Witness (KJV) & Canonical Context

Primary KJV scripture witnesses include Acts 21:9 : "And the same man had four daughters, virgins, which did prophesy."; Acts 21:17 : "And when we were come to Jerusalem , the brethren received us gladly."; Acts 21:36 : "For the multitude of the people followed after, crying, Away with him.". Related canonical books and chapters: Acts 21 ( Acts • Chapter 21 (40 verses)), Acts (New Testament • 28 Chapters).

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Topics, People & Places (36)

Acts 21
99% Chapter
Acts • Chapter 21 (40 verses)

And it came to pass, that after we were gotten from them, and had launched, we came with a straight course unto Coos, and the day following unto Rhodes , and from thence unto Patara : And finding a ship sailing over unto Phoenicia , we went aboard, and set forth. Now when we had dis... Mentions: Yeshua the Messiah , James ( Jacob ), Moses , Jacob/Israel , Rhodes , Patara , Phoenicia , Cyprus , Syria .

Acts
99% New Testament
New Testament • 28 Chapters

Acts (New Testament, 28 chapters). Key figures: Yeshua the Messiah , Jacob/Israel , James ( Jacob ), Simon , Judas , Mary . Key places: Jerusalem , Samaria , Galilee , Olivet , Mesopotamia , Cappadocia . Opens with: "The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach,..."

Acts 21:28
99% Verse
Acts Chapter 21, Verse 28

Scripture passage in Acts 21:28

Map of Paul's Third Missionary Journey (Acts 18:23–21:16)
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Extended 3-year ministry in Ephesus , visit to Macedonia and Greece , and journey to Jerusalem .

Historical Biblical Cartographers • Geographicus / Wikimedia Commons Public Domain Mark 1.0
Wiki Article • New Testament & Messiah

Following the ascension of Yeshua and the outpouring of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost in Acts 1 –2, the apostolic community spread from Jerusalem and Judea to Samaria , Antioch , Corinth , Ephesus , and Rome , documented across Acts and the twenty-one New Testament Epistles.

Macedonia
94% Mapped Place
Biblical Place • Thessalonica • 40.632°N, 22.932°E

region. Referenced in Acts 16:9 , Acts 16:10 , Acts 16:12 , Acts 18:5 , Acts 19:21 .

Temple Warning Inscription — Greek Soreg Warning to Gentiles
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Limestone slab warning non-Jews on pain of death not to enter past the balustrade (soreg) into the inner Temple courts ( Acts 21:28 ).

Ancient Near Eastern Scribes and Stonemasons • The British Museum / Israel Antiquities Authority CC-BY-SA 4.0
Ephesus
90% Mapped Place
Biblical Place • 37.953°N, 27.368°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in Acts 18:19 , Acts 18:21 , Acts 18:24 , Acts 19:1 , Acts 19:17 , Acts 19:26 .

Achaia
83% Mapped Place
Biblical Place • Athens • 37.983°N, 23.733°E

region. Referenced in Acts 18:12 , Acts 18:27 , Acts 19:21 , Rom 15:26 , 1 Cor 16:15 .

En-Gedi Carbonized Scroll — Micro-CT Virtual Unrolling of Leviticus
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Burned parchment scroll from an ancient synagogue virtually unrolled with micro-computed tomography to reveal Leviticus 1 -2.

Ancient Near Eastern Scribes and Stonemasons • The British Museum / Israel Antiquities Authority CC-BY-SA 4.0
Rome
82% Mapped Place
Biblical Place • 41.900°N, 12.483°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in Acts 2:10 , Acts 18:2 , Acts 19:21 , Acts 23:11 , Acts 28:14 , Acts 28:16 .

Code of Hammurabi Stele — Babylonian Law & Mosaic Parallels
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Diorite stele in the Louvre Museum with 282 legal statutes illustrating Ancient Near Eastern covenantal jurisprudence.

Ancient Near Eastern Scribes and Stonemasons • The British Museum / Israel Antiquities Authority CC-BY-SA 4.0
Bar Kokhba Letters — Autographs of Shimon Bar Kokhba
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Military dispatches from the leader of the Second Jewish Revolt (132–135 CE) found in Nahal Hever.

Ancient Near Eastern Scribes and Stonemasons • The British Museum / Israel Antiquities Authority CC-BY-SA 4.0
Megiddo Ivory Plaque — Canaanite Royal Court Life
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Carved hippopotamus ivory plaque showing an enthroned ruler receiving tribute and drinking from a lotus chalice.

Ancient Near Eastern Scribes and Stonemasons • The British Museum / Israel Antiquities Authority CC-BY-SA 4.0
Cilicia
81% Mapped Place
Biblical Place • Tarsus • 36.918°N, 34.892°E

region. Referenced in Acts 6:9 , Acts 15:23 , Acts 15:41 , Acts 21:39 , Acts 22:3 .

Asia
79% Mapped Place
Biblical Place • 39.230°N, 32.730°E

region. Referenced in Acts 2:9 , Acts 6:9 , Acts 16:6 , Acts 19:10 , Acts 19:22 .

Cyrene
79% Mapped Place
Biblical Place • 32.825°N, 21.858°E

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrene%2C_Libya. Referenced in Matt 27:32 , Mark 15:21 , Luke 23:26 , Acts 2:10 , Acts 11:20 .

Iconium
79% Mapped Place
Biblical Place • 37.884°N, 32.494°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in Acts 13:51 , Acts 14:1 , Acts 14:19 , Acts 14:21 , Acts 16:2 , 2 Tim 3:11 .

Lystra
79% Mapped Place
Biblical Place • 37.578°N, 32.453°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in Acts 14:6 , Acts 14:8 , Acts 14:21 , Acts 16:1 , Acts 16:2 , 2 Tim 3:11 .

Crete
78% Mapped Place
Biblical Place • 35.171°N, 25.007°E

island. Referenced in Acts 27:7 , Acts 27:12 , Acts 27:13 , Acts 27:21 , Titus 1:5 .

Greece
77% Mapped Place
Biblical Place • Athens • 37.983°N, 23.733°E

region. Referenced in Dan 8:21 , Dan 10:20 , Dan 11:2 , Zech 9:13 , Acts 20:2 .

Tarsus
77% Mapped Place
Biblical Place • 36.918°N, 34.892°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in Acts 9:11 , Acts 9:30 , Acts 11:25 , Acts 21:39 , Acts 22:3 .

Caesarea
76% Mapped Place
Biblical Place • 32.500°N, 34.892°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in Acts 8:40 , Acts 9:30 , Acts 10:1 , Acts 10:24 , Acts 11:11 , Acts 12:19 .

Antioch 2
76% Mapped Place
Biblical Place • 38.316°N, 31.179°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in Acts 13:14 , Acts 14:19 , Acts 14:21 , 2 Tim 3:11 .

Olivet
75% Mapped Place
Biblical Place • Mount of Olives • 31.778°N, 35.247°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in Luke 19:29 , Luke 21:37 , Acts 1:12 (identified with Mount of Olives ).

Phoenicia
75% Mapped Place
Biblical Place • Sidon • 33.563°N, 35.366°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in Acts 11:19 , Acts 15:3 , Acts 21:2 (identified with Sidon ).

Cyprus
74% Mapped Place
Biblical Place • 35.018°N, 33.208°E

island. Referenced in Isa 23:1 , Isa 23:12 , Jer 2:10 , Ezek 27:6 , Acts 4:36 .

Cos
73% Mapped Place
Biblical Place • 36.805°N, 27.090°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in Acts 21:1 .

Patara
73% Mapped Place
Biblical Place • 36.275°N, 29.319°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in Acts 21:1 .

Ptolemais
73% Mapped Place
Biblical Place • Acco • 32.928°N, 35.082°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in Acts 21:7 (identified with Acco ).

Rhodes
72% Mapped Place
Biblical Place • 36.442°N, 28.227°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in Acts 21:1 .

Libya
65% Mapped Place
Biblical Place • Cyrene • 32.825°N, 21.858°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in Ezek 30:5 , Acts 2:10 (identified with Cyrene ).

Fair Havens
64% Mapped Place
Biblical Place • 34.921°N, 24.731°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in Acts 27:8 .

Salmone
64% Mapped Place
Biblical Place • 35.212°N, 26.274°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in Acts 27:7 .

Interactive 3D Judean Coin • Mark 12:41–44 & Luke 21:1–4

Small bronze Hasmonean prutah/lepton minted in Jerusalem under King Alexander Jannaeus that remained the smallest denomination bronze coin in daily circulation during the first century AD—universalized in the Gospels as the 'widow's mite' cast into the Temple treasury ( Mark 12:42 ; Luke 21:2 ).

Codex Sinaiticus — Gospel of John 21:7 Folio
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Fourth-century uncial manuscript (GA 01) written in Koine Greek on parchment, depicting John 21:7 with Peter leaping into the Sea of Tiberias .

Scribes of Codex Sinaiticus • British Library / Wikimedia Commons Public Domain Mark 1.0

Scripture Passages (24)

Acts 21:9 (KJV)
Acts 21 KJV

And the same man had four daughters, virgins, which did prophesy.

Acts 21:17 (KJV)
Acts 21 KJV

And when we were come to Jerusalem , the brethren received us gladly.

Acts 21:36 (KJV)
Acts 21 KJV

For the multitude of the people followed after, crying, Away with him.

Acts 21:2 (KJV)
Acts 21 KJV

And finding a ship sailing over unto Phoenicia , we went aboard, and set forth.

Acts 21:15 (KJV)
Acts 21 KJV

And after those days we took up our carriages, and went up to Jerusalem .

Acts 21:10 (KJV)
Acts 21 KJV

And as we tarried there many days, there came down from Judaea a certain prophet, named Agabus.

Acts 21:14 (KJV)
Acts 21 KJV

And when he would not be persuaded, we ceased, saying, The will of the Lord be done.

Acts 21:18 (KJV)
Acts 21 KJV

And the day following Paul went in with us unto James ; and all the elders were present.

Acts 21:6 (KJV)
Acts 21 KJV

And when we had taken our leave one of another, we took ship; and they returned home again.

Acts 21:22 (KJV)
Acts 21 KJV

What is it therefore? the multitude must needs come together: for they will hear that thou art come.

Acts 21:23 (KJV)
Acts 21 KJV

Do therefore this that we say to thee: We have four men which have a vow on them;

And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.

Acts 21:19 (KJV)
Acts 21 KJV

And when he had saluted them, he declared particularly what things God had wrought among the Gentiles by his ministry.

Acts 21:12 (KJV)
Acts 21 KJV

And when we heard these things, both we, and they of that place, besought him not to go up to Jerusalem .

Wherefore of these men which have companied with us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,

Acts 21:21 (KJV)
Acts 21 KJV

And they are informed of thee, that thou teachest all the Jews which are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses , saying that they ought not to circumcise their children, neither to walk after the customs.

Acts 21:4 (KJV)
Acts 21 KJV

And finding disciples, we tarried there seven days: who said to Paul through the Spirit, that he should not go up to Jerusalem .

Acts 21:7 (KJV)
Acts 21 KJV

And when we had finished our course from Tyre , we came to Ptolemais , and saluted the brethren, and abode with them one day.

Acts 21:29 (KJV)
Acts 21 KJV

(For they had seen before with him in the city Trophimus an Ephesian, whom they supposed that Paul had brought into the temple.)

And teach customs, which are not lawful for us to receive, neither to observe, being Romans .

Acts 21:35 (KJV)
Acts 21 KJV

And when he came upon the stairs, so it was, that he was borne of the soldiers for the violence of the people.

And he said unto me, Depart: for I will send thee far hence unto the Gentiles.

For these causes the Jews caught me in the temple, and went about to kill me.

Acts 21:31 (KJV)
Acts 21 KJV

And as they went about to kill him, tidings came unto the chief captain of the band, that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.

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