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Through the Spirit they told Paul not to go on to Jerusalem. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>When our days there were ended, we left and proceeded on our journey; and all of them, with wives and children, escorted us outside the city. There we knelt down on the beach and prayed </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>and said farewell to one another. Then we went on board the ship, and they returned home.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>When we had finished<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-31931b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span> the voyage from Tyre, we arrived at Ptolemais; and we greeted the believers<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-31931c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote c">c</a>]</span> and stayed with them for one day. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>The next day we left and came to Caesarea; and we went into the house of Philip the evangelist, one of the seven, and stayed with him. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>He had four unmarried daughters<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-31933d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote d">d</a>]</span> who had the gift of prophecy. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>While we were staying there for several days, a prophet named Agabus came down from Judea. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>He came to us and took Paul’s belt, bound his own feet and hands with it, and said, “Thus says the Holy Spirit, ‘This is the way the Jews in Jerusalem will bind the man who owns this belt and will hand him over to the Gentiles.’” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>When we heard this, we and the people there urged him not to go up to Jerusalem. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>Then Paul answered, “What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound but even to die in Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>Since he would not be persuaded, we remained silent except to say, “The Lord’s will be done.”</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>After these days we got ready and started to go up to Jerusalem. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>Some of the disciples from Caesarea also came along and brought us to the house of Mnason of Cyprus, an early disciple, with whom we were to stay.</span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Paul Visits James at Jerusalem</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>When we arrived in Jerusalem, the brothers welcomed us warmly. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>The next day Paul went with us to visit James; and all the elders were present. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>After greeting them, he related one by one the things that God had done among the Gentiles through his ministry. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">20</span>When they heard it, they praised God. Then they said to him, “You see, brother, how many thousands of believers there are among the Jews, and they are all zealous for the law. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">21</span>They have been told about you that you teach all the Jews living among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, and that you tell them not to circumcise their children or observe the customs. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">22</span>What then is to be done? They will certainly hear that you have come. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">23</span>So do what we tell you. We have four men who are under a vow. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">24</span>Join these men, go through the rite of purification with them, and pay for the shaving of their heads. Thus all will know that there is nothing in what they have been told about you, but that you yourself observe and guard the law. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">25</span>But as for the Gentiles who have become believers, 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 is strangled<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-31949e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote e">e</a>]</span> and from fornication.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">26</span>Then Paul took the men, and the next day, having purified himself, he entered the temple with them, making public the completion of the days of purification when the sacrifice would be made for each of them.</span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Paul Arrested in the Temple</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">27</span>When the seven days were almost completed, the Jews from Asia, who had seen him in the temple, stirred up the whole crowd. They seized him, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">28</span>shouting, “Fellow Israelites, help! This is the man who is teaching everyone everywhere against our people, our law, and this place; more than that, he has actually brought Greeks into the temple and has defiled this holy place.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">29</span>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> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">30</span>Then all the city was aroused, and the people rushed together. They seized Paul and dragged him out of the temple, and immediately the doors were shut. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">31</span>While they were trying to kill him, word came to the tribune of the cohort that all Jerusalem was in an uproar. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">32</span>Immediately he took soldiers and centurions and ran down to them. When they saw the tribune and the soldiers, they stopped beating Paul. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">33</span>Then the tribune came, arrested him, and ordered him to be bound with two chains; he inquired who he was and what he had done. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">34</span>Some in the crowd shouted 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> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">35</span>When Paul<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-31959f" title="See footnote f">f</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote f">f</a>]</span> came to the steps, the violence of the mob was so great that he had to be carried by the soldiers. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">36</span>The crowd that followed kept shouting, “Away with him!”</span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Paul Defends Himself</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">37</span>Just as Paul was about to be brought into the barracks, he said to the tribune, “May I say something to you?” The tribune<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-31961g" title="See footnote g">g</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote g">g</a>]</span> replied, “Do you know Greek? </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">38</span>Then you are not the Egyptian who recently stirred up a revolt and led the four thousand assassins out into the wilderness?” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">39</span>Paul replied, “I am a Jew, from Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of an important city; I beg you, let me speak to the people.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">40</span>When he had given him permission, Paul stood on the steps and motioned to the people for silence; and when there was a great hush, he addressed them in the Hebrew<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-31964h" title="See footnote h">h</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote h">h</a>]</span> language, saying:</span></p> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Acts 21:1">Acts 21:1</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Other ancient authorities add <i>and Myra</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Acts 21:7">Acts 21:7</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>continued</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Acts 21:7">Acts 21:7</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk <i>brothers</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Acts 21:9">Acts 21:9</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk <i>four daughters, virgins,</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Acts 21:25">Acts 21:25</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Other ancient authorities lack <i>and from what is strangled</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Acts 21:35">Acts 21:35</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk <i>he</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Acts 21:37">Acts 21:37</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk <i>He</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Acts 21:40">Acts 21:40</a> <span class='footnote-text'>That is, <i>Aramaic</i></span></li></ol></div> <!--end of footnotes--></div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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