Acts 21:38 meaning and explanation

“Aren’t you the Egyptian who incited a rebellion some time ago and led four thousand members of the ‘Assassins’ into the wilderness?”

Acts 21:38, Berean Standard Bible

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The Roman commander speaks these words to Paul on the steps of the barracks, having just rescued him from a Jerusalem mob. He mistakes Paul for an Egyptian rebel who had recently led four thousand men of the Assassins, a violent resistance group, into the wilderness.

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