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1 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: 2 And find­ing a ship sail­ing over unto Pheni­cia, we went aboard, and set forth. 3 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. 4 And find­ing dis­ci­ples, we tar­ried there sev­en days: who said to Paul through the Spir­it, that he should not go up to Jerusalem. 5 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. 6 And when we had tak­en our leave one of an­oth­er, we took ship; and they re­turned home again. 7 And when we had fin­ished our course from Tyre, we came to Ptole­mais, and salut­ed the brethren, and abode with them one day. 8 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. 9 And the same man had four daugh­ters, vir­gins, which did proph­esy. 10 And as we tar­ried there many days, there came down from Ju­daea a cer­tain prophet, named Agabus. 11 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. 12 And when we heard these things, both we, and they of that place, be­sought him not to go up to Jerusalem. 13 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. 14 And when he would not be per­suad­ed, we ceased, say­ing, The will of the Lord be done. 15 And af­ter those days we took up our car­riages, and went up to Jerusalem. 16 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. 17 And when we were come to Jerusalem, the brethren re­ceived us glad­ly. 18 And the day fol­low­ing Paul went in with us unto James; and all the el­ders were pre­sent. 19 And when he had salut­ed them, he de­clared par­tic­u­lar­ly what things God had wrought among the Gen­tiles by his min­istry. 20 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: 21 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. 22 What is it there­fore? the mul­ti­tude must needs come to­geth­er: for they will hear that thou art come. 23 Do there­fore this that we say to thee: We have four men which have a vow on them; 24 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. 25 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. 26 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. 27 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, 28 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. 29 (For they had seen be­fore with him in the city Trophimus an Eph­esian, whom they sup­posed that Paul had brought into the tem­ple.) 30 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. 31 And as they went about to kill him, tid­ings came unto the chief cap­tain of the band, that all Jerusalem was in an up­roar. 32 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. 33 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. 34 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. 35 And when he came upon the stairs, so it was, that he was borne of the sol­diers for the vi­o­lence of the peo­ple. 36 For the mul­ti­tude of the peo­ple fol­lowed af­ter, cry­ing, Away with him. 37 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? 38 Art not thou that Egyp­tian, which be­fore these days madest an up­roar, and led­dest out into the wilder­ness four thou­sand men that were mur­der­ers? 39 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. 40 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,