The Prophecy:
[b:6c370e6f58]Acts 21[/b:6c370e6f58]
11 "So shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man who owns this belt, and deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles."'
The action takes place:
[b:6c370e6f58]Acts 21[/b:6c370e6f58]
26 Then Paul took the men, and the next day, having been purified with them, entered the temple to announce the expiration of the days of purification, at which time an offering should be made for each one of them. 27Now when the seven days were almost ended, the Jews from Asia, seeing him in the temple, stirred up the whole crowd and laid hands on him, 28crying out, "Men of Israel, help! This is the man who teaches all men everywhere against the people, the law, and this place; and furthermore he also brought Greeks into the temple and has defiled this holy place." 29(For they had previously seen Trophimus the Ephesian with him in the city, whom they supposed that Paul had brought into the temple.) 30And all the city was disturbed; and [u:6c370e6f58]the people ran together, seized Paul, and dragged him out of the temple[/u:6c370e6f58]; and immediately the doors were shut. 31[u:6c370e6f58]Now as they were seeking to kill him[/u:6c370e6f58], news came to the commander of the garrison that all Jerusalem was in an uproar. 32He immediately took soldiers and centurions, and ran down to them. And when they saw the commander and the soldiers, [u:6c370e6f58]they stopped beating Paul[/u:6c370e6f58]. 33[u:6c370e6f58]Then the commander came near and took him, and commanded him to be bound with two chains[/u:6c370e6f58]; and he asked who he was and what he had done. 34And some among the multitude cried one thing and some another.
Then Paul spoke to the Jews who had beaten him (and probably bound him while beating him):
[b:6c370e6f58]Acts 22[/b:6c370e6f58]
1 "Brethren and fathers, hear my defense before you now." 2And when they heard that he spoke to them in the Hebrew language, they kept all the more silent.
Then the Jews responded:
[b:6c370e6f58]Acts 22[/b:6c370e6f58]
22 And [u:6c370e6f58]they[/u:6c370e6f58] listened to him until this word, and then [u:6c370e6f58]they[/u:6c370e6f58] raised their voices and said, "Away with such a fellow from the earth, for he is not fit to live!" 23Then, as they cried out and tore off their clothes and threw dust into the air, 24the commander ordered him to be brought into the barracks, and said that he should be examined under scourging, so that he might know why they shouted so against him. 25And as [u:6c370e6f58]they bound him with thongs[/u:6c370e6f58], Paul said to the centurion who stood by, "Is it lawful for you to scourge a man who is a Roman, and uncondemned?"
The Centurion was standing by watching...the Jews demanded he be taken away, he was bound again and about to be beaten again by the Romans this time.
Further, the High Priest and other Jews testified against Paul to the Romans (Acts 24:1, 9) And in Acts 25 we see certain Jews pestering Festus to send Paul to Jerusalem and they were going to ambush the group and kill Paul. Festus refused at first so the Jews who had come up from Jerusalem continued to testify against Paul (Acts 25:7).
Paul then, instead of consenting to be sent back to Jerusalem, appealed to Caesar and so was prepared to be taken to Rome. He was at this time already in the custody of the Romans because of the Jews. It was the Jews who pursued the matter over and over again throught he course of several years, making sure that Paul was arrested and held by the Romans.
So where did the prophecy not come true?
Because of the testimony of Jews from Jerusalem, Paul was bound, beaten, and held for 2 years by the Romans.
Phillip
