Acts 21:1

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;... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 21:3

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.... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 21:4

AND FINDING DISCIPLES, WE TARRIED THERE SEVEN DAYS; WHO SAID TO PAUL THROUGH THE SPIRIT THAT HE SHOULD NOT GO UP TO JERUSALEM. The leave-taking from the elders was attended with such difficulties that Paul and his companions literally had to tear themselves from their embraces, so bitterly did they... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 21:5

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.... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 21:7

AND WHEN WE HAD FINISHED OUR COURSE FROM TYRE, WE CAME TO PTOLEMAIS, AND SALUTED THE BRETHREN, AND ABODE WITH THEM ONE DAY.... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 21:8

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.... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 21:9

AND THE SAME MAN HAD FOUR DAUGHTERS, VIRGINS, WHICH DID PROPHESY. When Paul and his companions had accomplished the seven days, when they had finished the time, when the stated period was up during which they had remained for the cargo to be unloaded, they went out of the city to continue their trip... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 21:11

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.... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 21:13

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.... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 21:16

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. "Many days," a few days more, they, Paul and his companions, remained in Caesarea. Paul had been singularly fortunate in having a speedy voyage, a fac... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 21:19

AND WHEN HE HAD SALUTED THEM, HE DECLARED PARTICULARLY WHAT THINGS GOD HAD WROUGHT AMONG THE GENTILES BY HIS MINISTRY. When Paul and his companions reached Jerusalem, the brethren of the congregation received them with joy, much to the encouragement of them all. The next day there was a more formal... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 21:20

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;... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 21:21

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.... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 21:24

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.... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 21:25

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. The rank and file of the congregation in Jerusalem was still strongly imp... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 21:26

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.... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 21:27

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,... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 21:28

CRYING OUT, MEN OF ISRAEL, HELP! THIS IS THE MAN THAT TEACHETH ALL MEN EVERYWHERE AGAINST THE PEOPLE AND THE LAW AND THIS PLACE; AND FURTHER BROUGHT GREEKS ALSO INTO THE TEMPLE, AND HATH POLLUTED THIS HOLY PLACE.... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 21:29

(FOR THEY HAD SEEN BEFORE WITH HIM IN THE CITY TROPHIMUS, AN EPHESIAN, WHOM THEY SUPPOSED THAT PAUL HAD BROUGHT INTO THE TEMPLE.)... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 21:30

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. Paul here showed that the spirit of Christ lived in him, that he was willing, for the sake of others, to take part in a ceremony of which he knew that it ha... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 21:31

AND AS THEY WENT ABOUT TO KILL HIM, TIDINGS CAME UNTO THE CHIEF CAPTAIN OF THE BAND THAT ALL JERUSALEM WAS IN AN UPROAR.... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 21:32

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.... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 21:33

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.... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 21:34

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. It was a typical mob, without reason and sense, that was surging back and forth in the Court of the Gentiles, every one trying to lay... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 21:37

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?... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 21:38

ART NOT THOU THAT EGYPTIAN WHICH BEFORE THESE DAYS MADEST AN UPROAR, AND LEDDEST OUT INTO THE WILDERNESS FOUR THOUSAND MEN THAT WERE MURDERERS?... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 21:39

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. At the coming of the tribune with his cohorts, the tumult of the people had died down somewhat: but when the soldiers turned to carry out their co... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 21:40

PAUL'S SPEECH TO THE JEWS. Acts 21:40 ; Acts 22:1 Concerning Paul's early life and persecution of the Church: AND WHEN HE HAD GIVEN HIM LICENSE, 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, S... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 21:43

I AM VERILY A MAN WHICH AM A JEW, BORN IN TARSUS, A CITY IN CILICIA, YET BROUGHT UP IN THIS CITY AT THE FEET OF GAMALIEL, AND TAUGHT ACCORDING TO THE PERFECT MANNER OF THE LAW OF THE FATHERS, AND WAS ZEALOUS TOWARD GOD, AS YE ALL ARE THIS DAY.... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 21:45

AS ALSO THE HIGH PRIEST DOTH BEAR ME WITNESS, AND ALL THE ESTATE OF THE ELDERS, FROM WHOM ALSO I RECEIVED LETTERS UNTO THE BRETHREN, AND WENT TO DAMASCUS TO BRING THEM WHICH WERE THERE BOUND UNTO JERUSALEM FOR TO BE PUNISHED. The commander of the garrison granted the request of Paul to speak to the... [ Continue Reading ]

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