Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges - Acts 20:22

Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges - Acts 20:22 - 20:22

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Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges - Acts 20:22 - 20:22

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22. καὶ νῦν ἰδοὺ δεδεμένος ἐγὼ κ.τ.λ., and now, behold, I go bound in the spirit unto Jerusalem. In these words the Apostle refers to his own spirit, the constraint which in his own mind was laid upon him. Some therefore to make this plain would render ‘in my spirit.’ The verb implies that he felt there was no freeing himself from the impulse to go, but it has no such sense as that he already regards himself as a prisoner, that he will be seized and deprived of his liberty when he arrives at Jerusalem.

μὴ εἰδώς, not knowing. Hence we see that the Holy Ghost had not given to the Apostle more than a general sense that in all places he would be called on to suffer for Christ.