Acts 21

About Acts Acts tells how the Holy Spirit came and the good news about Jesus spread from Jerusalem to Rome.

And it came to pass, that after we were gotten from them, and had launched, we came with a straight course unto Coos, and the day following unto Rhodes, and from thence unto Patara:SelectedActs 21:1Ask

And finding a ship sailing over unto Phenicia, we went aboard, and set forth.SelectedActs 21:2Ask

Now when we had discovered Cyprus, we left it on the left hand, and sailed into Syria, and landed at Tyre: for there the ship was to unlade her burden.SelectedActs 21:3Ask

And finding disciples, we tarried there seven days: who said to Paul through the Spirit, that he should not go up to Jerusalem.SelectedActs 21:4Ask

And when we had accomplished those days, we departed and went our way; and they all brought us on our way, with wives and children, till we were out of the city: and we kneeled down on the shore, and prayed.SelectedActs 21:5Ask

And when we had taken our leave one of another, we took ship; and they returned home again.SelectedActs 21:6Ask

And when we had finished our course from Tyre, we came to Ptolemais, and saluted the brethren, and abode with them one day.SelectedActs 21:7Ask

And the next day we that were of Paul’s company departed, and came unto Caesarea: and we entered into the house of Philip the evangelist, which was one of the seven; and abode with him.SelectedActs 21:8Ask

And the same man had four daughters, virgins, which did prophesy.SelectedActs 21:9Ask

And as we tarried there many days, there came down from Judaea a certain prophet, named Agabus.SelectedActs 21:10Ask

And when he was come unto us, he took Paul’s girdle, and bound his own hands and feet, and said, Thus saith the Holy Ghost, So shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man that owneth this girdle, and shall deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.SelectedActs 21:11Ask

And when we heard these things, both we, and they of that place, besought him not to go up to Jerusalem.SelectedActs 21:12Ask

Then Paul answered, What mean ye to weep and to break mine heart? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.SelectedActs 21:13Ask

And when he would not be persuaded, we ceased, saying, The will of the Lord be done.SelectedActs 21:14Ask

And after those days we took up our carriages, and went up to Jerusalem.SelectedActs 21:15Ask

There went with us also certain of the disciples of Caesarea, and brought with them one Mnason of Cyprus, an old disciple, with whom we should lodge.SelectedActs 21:16Ask

And when we were come to Jerusalem, the brethren received us gladly.SelectedActs 21:17Ask

And the day following Paul went in with us unto James; and all the elders were present.SelectedActs 21:18Ask

And when he had saluted them, he declared particularly what things God had wrought among the Gentiles by his ministry.SelectedActs 21:19Ask

And when they heard it, they glorified the Lord, and said unto him, Thou seest, brother, how many thousands of Jews there are which believe; and they are all zealous of the law:SelectedActs 21:20Ask

And they are informed of thee, that thou teachest all the Jews which are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, saying that they ought not to circumcise their children, neither to walk after the customs.SelectedActs 21:21Ask

What is it therefore? the multitude must needs come together: for they will hear that thou art come.SelectedActs 21:22Ask

Do therefore this that we say to thee: We have four men which have a vow on them;SelectedActs 21:23Ask

Them take, and purify thyself with them, and be at charges with them, that they may shave their heads: and all may know that those things, whereof they were informed concerning thee, are nothing; but that thou thyself also walkest orderly, and keepest the law.SelectedActs 21:24Ask

As touching the Gentiles which believe, we have written and concluded that they observe no such thing, save only that they keep themselves from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from strangled, and from fornication.SelectedActs 21:25Ask

Then Paul took the men, and the next day purifying himself with them entered into the temple, to signify the accomplishment of the days of purification, until that an offering should be offered for every one of them.SelectedActs 21:26Ask

And when the seven days were almost ended, the Jews which were of Asia, when they saw him in the temple, stirred up all the people, and laid hands on him,SelectedActs 21:27Ask

Crying out, Men of Israel, help: This is the man, that teacheth all men every where against the people, and the law, and this place: and further brought Greeks also into the temple, and hath polluted this holy place.SelectedActs 21:28Ask

(For they had seen before with him in the city Trophimus an Ephesian, whom they supposed that Paul had brought into the temple.)SelectedActs 21:29Ask

And all the city was moved, and the people ran together: and they took Paul, and drew him out of the temple: and forthwith the doors were shut.SelectedActs 21:30Ask

And as they went about to kill him, tidings came unto the chief captain of the band, that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.SelectedActs 21:31Ask

Who immediately took soldiers and centurions, and ran down unto them: and when they saw the chief captain and the soldiers, they left beating of Paul.SelectedActs 21:32Ask

Then the chief captain came near, and took him, and commanded him to be bound with two chains; and demanded who he was, and what he had done.SelectedActs 21:33Ask

And some cried one thing, some another, among the multitude: and when he could not know the certainty for the tumult, he commanded him to be carried into the castle.SelectedActs 21:34Ask

And when he came upon the stairs, so it was, that he was borne of the soldiers for the violence of the people.SelectedActs 21:35Ask

For the multitude of the people followed after, crying, Away with him.SelectedActs 21:36Ask

And as Paul was to be led into the castle, he said unto the chief captain, May I speak unto thee? Who said, Canst thou speak Greek?SelectedActs 21:37Ask

Art not thou that Egyptian, which before these days madest an uproar, and leddest out into the wilderness four thousand men that were murderers?SelectedActs 21:38Ask

But Paul said, I am a man which am a Jew of Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city: and, I beseech thee, suffer me to speak unto the people.SelectedActs 21:39Ask

And when he had given him licence, Paul stood on the stairs, and beckoned with the hand unto the people. And when there was made a great silence, he spake unto them in the Hebrew tongue, saying,SelectedActs 21:40Ask

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