21:1And when it had come about that we sailed, torn away from them, with a straight course we came to Cos, and on the following day to Rhodes, and from there to Patara. 21:2And when we had found a ship crossing over to Phoenicia, going on board we set sail. 21:3And when we had come in sight of Cyprus, leaving it on the left, we sailed into Syria, and came to Tyre: for there the ship was to unload its cargo. 21:4And disciples having been found, we stayed there seven days: who were telling Paul through the Spirit not to go up to Jerusalem. 21:5And the days having been completed, we set out and were going on, all of them escorting us with wives and children as far as outside the city: and our knees having been bent on the shore, we prayed.
21:6And when we had said farewell to one another, we went up into the ship: and they returned to their own homes. 21:7But we, the voyage having been completed, went down from Tyre to Ptolemais: and the brothers having been greeted, we stayed one day with them. 21:8And on another day, having set out, we came to Caesarea. 21:8And entering the house of Philip the evangelist, who was one of the seven, we stayed with him. 21:9Now he had four daughters, virgins, prophesying. 21:10And while we were staying for some days, there came a certain prophet from Judea, named Agabus. 21:11He, when he had come to us, took Paul's belt: and binding his own feet and hands, he said: "These things says the Holy Spirit: 'The man whose belt this is, the Jews in Jerusalem will bind so, and will hand him over into the hands of the Gentiles.'"
21:12And when we had heard this, we were asking, we and those who were of that place, that he not go up to Jerusalem. 21:13Then Paul answered, and said: "What are you doing, weeping, and afflicting my heart? 21:13For I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die in Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus." 21:14And when we could not persuade him, we fell quiet, saying: "The Lord's will be done." 21:15And after those days, having made ready, we were going up to Jerusalem. 21:16And there came also some of the disciples from Caesarea with us, bringing with them one with whom we should lodge, a certain Mnason of Cyprus, an old disciple.
21:17And when we had come to Jerusalem, the brothers received us gladly. 21:18And on the following day Paul was going in with us to James, and all the elders were gathered. 21:19And when he had greeted them, he was telling one by one the things which God had done among the Gentiles through his ministry. 21:20But they, when they had heard, were magnifying God, and they said to him: "You see, brother, how many thousands there are among the Jews who have believed, and all are zealous for the law. 21:21And they have heard about you that you teach departure from Moses to those Jews who are among the Gentiles, saying that they ought not to circumcise their sons, nor walk according to the custom.
21:22What then is it? 21:22Certainly the multitude must come together: for they will hear that you have arrived. 21:23So do this which we tell you. 21:23There are with us four men, having a vow upon them. 21:24These having been taken, sanctify yourself with them, and spend upon them that they may shave their heads: and all will know that the things which they have heard about you are false, but that you yourself also walk keeping the law. 21:25But concerning those of the Gentiles who have believed, we have written, judging that they should abstain from what is sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what is strangled, and from fornication."
21:26Then Paul, having taken the men, on the next day, purified with them, went into the temple, announcing the completion of the days of purification, until the offering should be offered for each one of them. 21:27But when the seven days were being completed, those Jews who were from Asia, when they had seen him in the temple, stirred up all the people, and laid hands on him, shouting: "Men of Israel, help: this is the man who against the people, and the law, and this place, is teaching all men everywhere, and besides he has brought Gentiles into the temple, and has defiled this holy place." 21:29For they had seen Trophimus the Ephesian in the city with him, whom they thought that Paul had brought into the temple.
21:30And the whole city was stirred, and there was a running together of the people. 21:30And seizing Paul, they were dragging him out of the temple: and at once the doors were shut. 21:31And as they were seeking to kill him, it was reported to the tribune of the cohort that all Jerusalem was in confusion. 21:32He at once, having taken soldiers and centurions, ran down to them. 21:32And they, when they had seen the tribune and the soldiers, ceased beating Paul. 21:33Then the tribune, coming up, seized him, and ordered him to be bound with two chains: and he was asking who he was, and what he had done.
21:34And some were shouting one thing, others another in the crowd. 21:34And since he could not learn anything certain because of the uproar, he ordered him to be led into the camp. 21:35And when he had come to the steps, it happened that he was carried by the soldiers because of the violence of the people. 21:36For the multitude of the people was following, shouting: "Away with him." 21:37And when Paul was beginning to be led into the camp, he says to the tribune: "May I say something to you?" 21:37He said: "Do you know Greek? 21:38Are you not the Egyptian, who before these days stirred up an uproar, and led out into the desert four thousand men of the assassins?"
21:39And Paul said to him: "I am a man indeed, a Jew from Tarsus of Cilicia, a citizen of no unknown city. 21:39But I ask you, permit me to speak to the people." 21:40And when he had permitted it, Paul, standing on the steps, beckoned with his hand to the people, and great silence having been made, he addressed them in the Hebrew tongue, saying: