Acts 21:37-38 - As the soldiers were about to take Paul into the barracks, he asked the commander, "May I say something to you?"
"Do you speak Greek?" he replied. "Aren't you the Egyptian who started a revolt and led four thousand terrorists out into the desert some time ago?"
Well, no, Paul wasn't that Egyptian. I wonder what made the commander think he was. Did he look Egyptian, as opposed to Jewish?
I wonder if we know from history who that Egyptian really was.
So terrorism is nothing new. I wonder what that Egyptian was planning to do with 4000 terrorists in the desert. I'm guessing that, whatever they had in mind, they didn't succeed, or we probably would have heard more about it even in the Bible -- assuming it would have had some effect on Jesus or his followers.
Israel spent 400 hundred years in Egypt.
ReplyDeleteJoseph had an egyption wife and children.
Moses was not found out by pharoah and lived in the palace for 40 years.
Jesus and his family hid in egypt, How could you hid in a place where you can't blend in.
Israelites and Egyptians resembled each other.
I have a question, egypt is a greek name. What did the egyptians call themselves being that they are Africans?
Good points. So maybe it wasn't so hard to mistake him for the Egyptian trouble-maker.
ReplyDeleteI don't know what the early Egyptians called themselves, but if you trust Wikipedia, they apparently called their land tawy and kemet. So maybe they called themselves some form of one or both of those two words.