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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Acts 21 NIV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/acts/21.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/acts/21-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NIV</a> > Acts 21</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../acts/20.htm" title="Acts 20">◄</a> Acts 21 <a href="../acts/22.htm" title="Acts 22">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New International Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/niv/esv/acts/21.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="sectionhead">On to Jerusalem</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/21-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>After we had torn ourselves away from them, we put out to sea and sailed straight to Kos. The next day we went to Rhodes and from there to Patara. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/21-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>We found a ship crossing over to Phoenicia, went on board and set sail. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/21-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/21-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>We sought out the disciples there and stayed with them seven days. Through the Spirit they urged Paul not to go on to Jerusalem. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/21-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/21-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>After saying goodbye to each other, we went aboard the ship, and they returned home.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/21-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>We continued our voyage from Tyre and landed at Ptolemais, where we greeted the brothers and sisters and stayed with them for a day. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/21-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Leaving the next day, we reached Caesarea and stayed at the house of Philip the evangelist, one of the Seven. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/21-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>He had four unmarried daughters who prophesied.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/21-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>After we had been there a number of days, a prophet named Agabus came down from Judea. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/21-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>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.’ ”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/21-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>When we heard this, we and the people there pleaded with Paul not to go up to Jerusalem. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/21-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>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.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/21-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>When he would not be dissuaded, we gave up and said, “The Lord’s will be done.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/21-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>After this, we started on our way up to Jerusalem. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/21-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>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.</p> <p class="sectionhead">Paul’s Arrival at Jerusalem</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/21-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>When we arrived at Jerusalem, the brothers and sisters received us warmly. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/21-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>The next day Paul and the rest of us went to see James, and all the elders were present. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/21-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Paul greeted them and reported in detail what God had done among the Gentiles through his ministry.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/21-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/21-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/21-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>What shall we do? They will certainly hear that you have come, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/21-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>so do what we tell you. There are four men with us who have made a vow. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/21-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/21-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>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.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/21-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>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.</p> <p class="sectionhead">Paul Arrested</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/21-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>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, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/21-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>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.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/21-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>(They had previously seen Trophimus the Ephesian in the city with Paul and assumed that Paul had brought him into the temple.)</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/21-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/21-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/21-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>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.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/21-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/21-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/21-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>When Paul reached the steps, the violence of the mob was so great he had to be carried by the soldiers. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/21-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>The crowd that followed kept shouting, “Get rid of him!”</p> <p class="sectionhead">Paul Speaks to the Crowd</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/21-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>As the soldiers were about to take Paul into the barracks, he asked the commander, “May I say something to you?”</p><p class="reg">“Do you speak Greek?” he replied. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/21-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>“Aren’t you the Egyptian who started a revolt and led four thousand terrorists out into the wilderness some time ago?”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/21-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>Paul answered, “I am a Jew, from Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no ordinary city. Please let me speak to the people.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/21-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>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 <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or possibly Hebrew; also in 22:2">a</a></sup></span> :</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="footnotes"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">40</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or possibly <i>Hebrew</i>; also in 22:2</span><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p class="ntext"><a href="http://niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. 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