Acts Chapter 20 verse 22 Holy Bible
And now, behold, I go bound in the spirit unto Jerusalem, not knowing the things that shall befall me there:
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And now, as you see, I am going to Jerusalem, a prisoner in spirit, having no knowledge of what will come to me there:
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And now, behold, bound in my spirit *I* go to Jerusalem, not knowing what things shall happen to me in it;
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And now, behold, I go bound in the spirit unto Jerusalem, not knowing the things that shall befall me there:
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Now, behold, I go bound by the Spirit to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there;
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`And now, lo, I -- bound in the Spirit -- go on to Jerusalem, the things that shall befall me in it not knowing,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 22. - Bound in the spirit. Τῷ πνεύματι, may either mean "in my spirit" or "by the Spirit," i.e. the Holy Ghost. If the former, which is the most probable sense (as τὸ Πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιον follows in the next verse), is taken, the sense will be that St. Paul felt himself constrained to go to Jerusalem. A sense of absolute necessity was upon him, and he did not feel himself a free agent to go anywhere else. If the latter sense be taken, the meaning will be that the Holy Ghost was constraining him to go to Jerusalem.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(22) And now, behold, I go bound in the spirit.--The question meets us as before (see Note on Acts 19:21), whether the words refer to the direct action of the Holy Spirit or to the higher element of St. Paul's own nature, as in 1Corinthians 5:3; 2Corinthians 2:13. On the whole, the latter seems the more probable, subject, as before, to the reservation that the word is used because it points to that part of his being which was most in communion with the Divine Spirit. (Comp. Romans 8:16.) He was going to Jerusalem regardless of results, under a constraint which virtually limited the freedom of his human will. As in 1Corinthians 9:16, a "necessity" was laid upon him.
