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Through the Spirit they told Paul not to go 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 our time had come to an end, we left to continue our journey, while all of them, with their wives and children, accompanied us out of the city. After kneeling down on the beach 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">we said farewell to one another and boarded 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">When we completed our voyage from Tyre, we reached 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">The next day we left and came to Caesarea, where we entered the house of Philip the evangelist, who was one of the Seven, and stayed with him.<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">This man had four virgin 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 for several 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">He came to us, took Paul's belt, tied his own feet and hands, and said, "This is what the Holy Spirit says: 'In this way the Jews in Jerusalem will bind the man who owns this belt and deliver 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, both we and the local people pleaded with him 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 replied, "What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For 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">Since he would not be persuaded, we said no more except, "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 got ready and went 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 also went with us and brought us to Mnason of Cyprus, an early disciple, with whom we were to stay.<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 reached Jerusalem, the brothers and sisters welcomed 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 following day Paul went in with us to 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">After greeting them, he 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 it, they glorified God and said, "You see, brother, how many thousands of Jews there are who have believed, and they are all 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">But they have been informed about you--that you are teaching all the Jews who are among the Gentiles to abandon Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children or to 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">So what is to be done? They will certainly hear that you've 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">Therefore do what we tell you: We have four men 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, purify yourself along with them, and pay for them to get their heads shaved. Then everyone will know that what they were told about you amounts to nothing, but that you yourself are also careful about observing 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">With regard to the Gentiles who have believed, we have written a letter containing our decision that they should keep themselves from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from what is strangled, 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">So the next day, Paul took the men, having purified himself along with them, and entered the temple, announcing the completion of the purification days when 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 him in the temple, 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! This is the man who teaches everyone everywhere against our people, our law, and this place. What's more, he also brought Greeks into the temple and has 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">For they had previously seen Trophimus the Ephesian in the city with him, and they supposed 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 stirred up, and the people rushed together. They seized Paul, dragged him out of the temple, and at once 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">As they were trying to kill him, word went up to the commander of the regiment that all Jerusalem was in chaos.<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">Taking along soldiers and centurions, he immediately ran down to them. Seeing the commander and the 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">Then the commander approached, took him into custody, and ordered him to be bound with two chains. 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 were shouting one thing and some another. Since he was not able to get reliable information because of the uproar, he ordered him to 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 got to the steps, he had to be carried by the soldiers because of the violence of the crowd,<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">for the mass of people followed, yelling, "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 he was about to be brought into the barracks, Paul said to the commander, "Am I allowed to say something to you?" He replied, "You know how to speak Greek?<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 some time ago and led four thousand men of the Assassins into the wilderness?"<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 said, "I am a Jewish man from Tarsus of Cilicia, a citizen of an important city. Now I ask you, 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 he had given permission, Paul stood on the steps and motioned with his hand to the people. When there was a great hush, he addressed 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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