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The next day we went to Rhodes and from there to Patara.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/21-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And when we had parted from them and set sail, we came by a straight course to Cos, and the next day to Rhodes, and from there to Patara.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/21-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext1">We found a ship crossing over to Phoenicia, went on board and set sail.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/21-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And having found a ship crossing to Phoenicia, we went aboard and set sail.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/21-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext1">After sighting Cyprus and passing to the south of it, we sailed on to Syria. We landed at Tyre, where our ship was to unload its cargo.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/21-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext2">When we had come in sight of Cyprus, leaving it on the left we sailed to Syria and landed at Tyre, for there the ship was to unload its cargo.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/21-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext1">We sought out the disciples there and stayed with them seven days. Through the Spirit they urged Paul not to go on to Jerusalem.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/21-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And having sought out the disciples, we stayed there for seven days. And through the Spirit they were telling Paul not to go on to Jerusalem.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/21-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext1">When it was time to leave, we left and continued on our way. All of them, including wives and children, accompanied us out of the city, and there on the beach we knelt to pray.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/21-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext2">When our days there were ended, we departed and went on our journey, and they all, with wives and children, accompanied us until we were outside the city. And kneeling down on the beach, we prayed</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/21-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext1">After saying goodbye to each other, we went aboard the ship, and they returned home.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/21-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext2">and said farewell to one another. Then we went on board the ship, and they returned home.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/21-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext1">We continued our voyage from Tyre and landed at Ptolemais, where we greeted the brothers and sisters and stayed with them for a day.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/21-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext2">When we had finished the voyage from Tyre, we arrived at Ptolemais, and we greeted the brothers and stayed with them for one day.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/21-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Leaving the next day, we reached Caesarea and stayed at the house of Philip the evangelist, one of the Seven.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/21-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext2">On the next day we departed and came to Caesarea, and we entered the house of Philip the evangelist, who was one of the seven, and stayed with him.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/21-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext1">He had four unmarried daughters who prophesied.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/21-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext2">He had four unmarried daughters, who prophesied.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/21-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext1">After we had been there a number of days, a prophet named Agabus came down from Judea.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/21-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext2">While we were staying for many days, a prophet named Agabus came down from Judea.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/21-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Coming over to us, he took Paul's belt, tied his own hands and feet with it and said, "The Holy Spirit says, 'In this way the Jewish leaders in Jerusalem will bind the owner of this belt and will hand him over to the Gentiles.'"<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/21-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And coming to us, he took Paul’s belt and bound his own feet and hands and said, “Thus says the Holy Spirit, ‘This is how the Jews at Jerusalem will bind the man who owns this belt and deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.’”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/21-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext1">When we heard this, we and the people there pleaded with Paul not to go up to Jerusalem.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/21-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext2">When we heard this, we and the people there urged him not to go up to Jerusalem.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/21-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Then Paul answered, "Why are you weeping and breaking my heart? I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die in Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus."<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/21-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Then Paul answered, “What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be imprisoned but even to die in Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/21-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext1">When he would not be dissuaded, we gave up and said, "The Lord's will be done."<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/21-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And since he would not be persuaded, we ceased and said, “Let the will of the Lord be done.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/21-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext1">After this, we started on our way up to Jerusalem.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/21-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext2">After these days we got ready and went up to Jerusalem.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/21-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Some of the disciples from Caesarea accompanied us and brought us to the home of Mnason, where we were to stay. He was a man from Cyprus and one of the early disciples.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/21-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And some of the disciples from Caesarea went with us, bringing us to the house of Mnason of Cyprus, an early disciple, with whom we should lodge.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/21-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext1">When we arrived at Jerusalem, the brothers and sisters received us warmly.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/21-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext2">When we had come to Jerusalem, the brothers received us gladly.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/21-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="btext1">The next day Paul and the rest of us went to see James, and all the elders were present.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/21-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="btext2">On the following day Paul went in with us to James, and all the elders were present.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/21-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Paul greeted them and reported in detail what God had done among the Gentiles through his ministry.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/21-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="btext2">After greeting them, he related one by one the things that God had done among the Gentiles through his ministry.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/21-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="btext1">When they heard this, they praised God. Then they said to Paul: "You see, brother, how many thousands of Jews have believed, and all of them are zealous for the law.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/21-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And when they heard it, they glorified God. And they said to him, “You see, brother, how many thousands there are among the Jews of those who have believed. They are all zealous for the law,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/21-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="btext1">They have been informed that you teach all the Jews who live among the Gentiles to turn away from Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children or live according to our customs.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/21-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="btext2">and they have been told about you that you teach all the Jews who are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children or walk according to our customs.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/21-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="btext1">What shall we do? They will certainly hear that you have come,<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/21-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="btext2">What then is to be done? They will certainly hear that you have come.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/21-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="btext1">so do what we tell you. There are four men with us who have made a vow.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/21-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Do therefore what we tell you. We have four men who are under a vow;</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/21-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Take these men, join in their purification rites and pay their expenses, so that they can have their heads shaved. Then everyone will know there is no truth in these reports about you, but that you yourself are living in obedience to the law.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/21-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="btext2">take these men and purify yourself along with them and pay their expenses, so that they may shave their heads. Thus all will know that there is nothing in what they have been told about you, but that you yourself also live in observance of the law.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/21-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span><span class="btext1">As for the Gentile believers, we have written to them our decision that they should abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals and from sexual immorality."<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/21-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span><span class="btext2">But as for the Gentiles who have believed, we have sent a letter with our judgment that they should abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what has been strangled, and from sexual immorality.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/21-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><span class="btext1">The next day Paul took the men and purified himself along with them. Then he went to the temple to give notice of the date when the days of purification would end and the offering would be made for each of them.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/21-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Then Paul took the men, and the next day he purified himself along with them and went into the temple, giving notice when the days of purification would be fulfilled and the offering presented for each one of them.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/21-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span><span class="btext1">When the seven days were nearly over, some Jews from the province of Asia saw Paul at the temple. They stirred up the whole crowd and seized him,<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/21-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span><span class="btext2">When the seven days were almost completed, the Jews from Asia, seeing him in the temple, stirred up the whole crowd and laid hands on him,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/21-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span><span class="btext1">shouting, "Fellow Israelites, help us! This is the man who teaches everyone everywhere against our people and our law and this place. And besides, he has brought Greeks into the temple and defiled this holy place."<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/21-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span><span class="btext2">crying out, “Men of Israel, help! This is the man who is teaching everyone everywhere against the people and the law and this place. Moreover, he even brought Greeks into the temple and has defiled this holy place.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/21-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span><span class="btext1">(They had previously seen Trophimus the Ephesian in the city with Paul and assumed that Paul had brought him into the temple.)<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/21-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span><span class="btext2">For they had previously seen Trophimus the Ephesian with him in the city, and they supposed that Paul had brought him into the temple.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/21-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span><span class="btext1">The whole city was aroused, and the people came running from all directions. Seizing Paul, they dragged him from the temple, and immediately the gates were shut.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/21-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Then all the city was stirred up, and the people ran together. They seized Paul and dragged him out of the temple, and at once the gates were shut.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/21-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span><span class="btext1">While they were trying to kill him, news reached the commander of the Roman troops that the whole city of Jerusalem was in an uproar.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/21-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And as they were seeking to kill him, word came to the tribune of the cohort that all Jerusalem was in confusion.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/21-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span><span class="btext1">He at once took some officers and soldiers and ran down to the crowd. When the rioters saw the commander and his soldiers, they stopped beating Paul.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/21-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span><span class="btext2">He at once took soldiers and centurions and ran down to them. And when they saw the tribune and the soldiers, they stopped beating Paul.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/21-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span><span class="btext1">The commander came up and arrested him and ordered him to be bound with two chains. Then he asked who he was and what he had done.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/21-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Then the tribune came up and arrested him and ordered him to be bound with two chains. He inquired who he was and what he had done.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/21-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Some in the crowd shouted one thing and some another, and since the commander could not get at the truth because of the uproar, he ordered that Paul be taken into the barracks.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/21-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Some in the crowd were shouting one thing, some another. And as he could not learn the facts because of the uproar, he ordered him to be brought into the barracks.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/21-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span><span class="btext1">When Paul reached the steps, the violence of the mob was so great he had to be carried by the soldiers.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/21-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And when he came to the steps, he was actually carried by the soldiers because of the violence of the crowd,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/21-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span><span class="btext1">The crowd that followed kept shouting, "Get rid of him!"<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/21-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span><span class="btext2">for the mob of the people followed, crying out, “Away with him!”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/21-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span><span class="btext1">As the soldiers were about to take Paul into the barracks, he asked the commander, "May I say something to you?" "Do you speak Greek?" he replied.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/21-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span><span class="btext2">As Paul was about to be brought into the barracks, he said to the tribune, “May I say something to you?” And he said, “Do you know Greek?</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/21-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span><span class="btext1">"Aren't you the Egyptian who started a revolt and led four thousand terrorists out into the wilderness some time ago?"<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/21-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Are you not the Egyptian, then, who recently stirred up a revolt and led the four thousand men of the Assassins out into the wilderness?”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/21-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Paul answered, "I am a Jew, from Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no ordinary city. Please let me speak to the people."<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/21-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Paul replied, “I am a Jew, from Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no obscure city. I beg you, permit me to speak to the people.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/21-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span><span class="btext1">After receiving the commander's permission, Paul stood on the steps and motioned to the crowd. When they were all silent, he said to them in Aramaic:<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/21-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And when he had given him permission, Paul, standing on the steps, motioned with his hand to the people. 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