<p>21:29 <i>For they had previously seen with him in the city Trophimus the Ephesian</i>- Seeing the Jews who made the problem were from Asia (:27), they perhaps were from Ephesus and knew Trophimus.</p><p><i>Whom they supposed that Paul had brought into the temple</i>- &ldquo;Supposed&rdquo; is the verb <em>nomizo,</em> a form of the noun <em>nomos</em>, 'law'. Their legalistic reasoning led them to over interpret facts and draw endless apparently logical conclusions- but they came to a false conclusion as a result of their legalistic devotion to logical deduction. The same mentality is seen in legalists today, who seem highly prone to all manner of conspiracy theories and irrational deductions.</p>