The temple warning stone
The barrier Acts turns on existed, with the death penalty attached, in exactly the words the crowd's accusation assumes.
Imethibitishwa na ardhiMaandishi ya jiwe1st century BC – 1st century AD
A block from the barrier around the temple courts, warning that no foreigner may pass beyond it, on pain of death. Acts has Paul seized in the temple by a crowd shouting that he has brought Greeks past that point and defiled the place.
No foreigner is to enter within the balustrade and enclosure around the temple area. Whoever is caught will have himself to blame for his death which follows.
- Kilipatikana
- Near the Temple Mount, Jerusalem, 1871 — Charles Clermont-Ganneau (a second fragment in 1936)
- Kinahifadhiwa
- Istanbul Archaeological Museums (fragment in the Israel Museum, Jerusalem)
- Lugha
- Greek
- Jinsi kilivyotufikia
- Kimefukuliwa, au bado kimesimama pale kilipojengwa.
Kinachoonyesha
The stone confirms the rule and its penalty. It says nothing about Paul.
Jinsi wanahistoria wanavyokitumia
A standard source on Herodian temple architecture and on Roman concessions to Jewish law.
Katika Maandiko
Kinahusiana na
Vyanzo
Kwa sasa maelezo haya yapo kwa Kiingereza. Tafsiri zitafuata.