Acts 21:33

The commander arrests Paul, binds him with two chains, and tries to learn who he is and what he has done. Paul is now a prisoner, though innocent.

Cross-references · 16

• Eph 6:20for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.
• Acts 21:11Coming to us, and taking Paul’s belt, he bound his own feet and hands, and said, “Thus says the Holy Spirit: ‘So will the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man who owns this belt, and will deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.’”
• Acts 20:23except that the Holy Spirit testifies in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions wait for me.
• Acts 12:6The same night when Herod was about to bring him out, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains. Guards in front of the door kept the prison.
• Acts 28:20For this cause therefore I asked to see you and to speak with you. For because of the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain.”
• Acts 22:29Immediately those who were about to examine him departed from him, and the commanding officer also was afraid when he realized that he was a Roman, because he had bound him.
• 2 Tim 2:9in which I suffer hardship to the point of chains as a criminal. But God’s word isn’t chained.
• 2 Tim 1:16May the Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain,
• Judg 16:21The Philistines laid hold on him, and put out his eyes; and they brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he ground at the mill in the prison.
• John 18:29–30Pilate therefore went out to them, and said, “What accusation do you bring against this man?”
• Judg 16:12So Delilah took new ropes, and bound him therewith, and said to him, “The Philistines are on you, Samson!” The ambush was waiting in the inner room. He broke them off his arms like a thread.
• Judg 15:13They spoke to him, saying, “No; but we will bind you securely, and deliver you into their hands; but surely we will not kill you.” They bound him with two new ropes, and brought him up from the rock.
• Judg 16:8Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven green cords which had not been dried, and she bound him with them.
• Acts 26:29Paul said, “I pray to God, that whether with little or with much, not only you, but also all that hear me today, might become such as I am, except for these bonds.”
• Acts 25:16To whom I answered that it is not the custom of the Romans to give up any man to destruction, before the accused has met the accusers face to face, and has had opportunity to make his defense concerning the matter laid against him.
• Acts 22:24–25the commanding officer commanded him to be brought into the barracks, ordering him to be examined by scourging, that he might know for what crime they shouted against him like that.

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