Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
Upon the stairs (epi touv anabaqmouv). From ana, up, and bainw, to go. Late word, in LXX and Koin‚ writers. In the N.T. only here and verse Acts 21:40.
So it was (sunebh). Second aorist active of sumbainw, to happen (see on Acts 20:19) with infinitive clause as subject here as often in the old Greek.
He was borne (bastazesqai auton). Accusative of general reference with this subject infinitive, present passive of bastazw, to take up with the hands, literally as here.
Violence (bian). See on Acts 5:26. Biazw, to use force, is from bia.
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Acts 21:35:
Acts 21:18
Acts 21:31
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