Tag Archives: Acts 21:28

Κράζοντες· ἄνδρες Ἰσραηλῖται, βοηθεῖτε· οὗτός ἐστιν ὁ ἄνθρωπος ὁ κατὰ τοῦ λαοῦ καὶ τοῦ νόμου καὶ τοῦ τόπου τούτου πάντας πανταχοῦ διδάσκων· ἔτι τε καὶ Ἕλληνας εἰσήγαγεν εἰς τὸ ἱερὸν καὶ κεκοίνωκε τὸν ἅγιον τόπον τοῦτον· (Acts 21:28) A Tumult of Accusation

Acts 21:28 records a dramatic escalation in Jerusalem: the Jewish crowd turns violently against Paul. But it’s not just shouting—it’s a forensically crafted slander. The Greek syntax reveals how accusations are built through participles, appositional phrases, and rhetorical exaggeration, all without a single relative pronoun.

Participial Framing: κράζοντες… διδάσκων

The verse opens with:

κράζοντες – present active participle, nominative masculine plural of κράζω, “crying out.”… Learn Koine Greek