Acts 21:12

"When we had heard this" Remember, the we includes the messengers mentioned in Acts 20:4. as well as Luke the writer. "The local residents" The brethren at Caesarea. "Began begging him not to go up to Jerusalem" Even Luke will urge Paul not to go. They may have argued that Paul did not need to go, they (who were far less known to the Jews in Jerusalem) could deliver the collection and return to Caesarea and let Paul know how it was received. At other times Paul was moved to change his plans by such pleas (Acts 9:25; Acts 19:30).