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\subsection{Acts 21}
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\VS{1} Now it came to pass we put out [to sea], having withdrawn from them, [and] having run [a]
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straight course we came to Kow, and on the next [day] to Rodon and from there to
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Patara.
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\VS{2} And having found [a] boat we crossed over to Phoenicia, [and] having
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gone aboard we put out [to sea].
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\VS{3} Now having sighted Bypris and having
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departed from it on the left [hand], we sailed to Syria, and we came down to Tyre --- for there the boat was unloading the cargo.
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\VS{4} So having found the
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disciples, we stayed with them seven days, who were saying to Paul through
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the spirit not to be setting foot in Jerusalem.
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\VS{5} Now when it came to
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pass [for] us to complete the days, having gone out, we went while everyone with
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[the] women and children were accompanying us until outside the city, and having
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knelt on the beach, having prayed,
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\VS{6} we were parted from one another,
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and we embarked into the boat, but they returned to their own [things].
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\VS{7} So we, having finished the voyage from Tyre, arrived in Ptolemais, and having
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greeted the brothers, we abided one day with them.
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\VS{8} Now on the morrow
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having departed, we came to Caesarea, and having gone into the house of
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Phillip, the good-newser being of the seven, we abided with him.
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\VS{9} Now
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there were to this [man] four prophesying virgin daughters.
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\VS{10} So while
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abiding more days, a certain prophet of the Jews came down by name Agabos,
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\VS{11} and having come to us and having taken Paul's girdle, having bound
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his feet and hands he said: The Holy Spirit says this: The man whose girdle
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this is the Jews will in Jerusalem thus bind and will deliver [him] up into the
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hands of the nations\footnote{i.e. the Gentiles}.
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\VS{12} Now as we heard
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these [things], we and the residents were calling upon him not to be going up to
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Jerusalem.
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\VS{13} Then Paul answered: Why do you do weeping and breaking my
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heart into pieces? For I am ready not only to be bound but to die in
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Jerusalem in behalf of the name of the Lord Jesus.
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\VS{14} So when he was
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not persuaded, we were silent saying: Let\fnImperative{} the will of
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the Lord come to pass.
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\VS{15} So after these days having made preparation, we were going up to
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Jerusalem.
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\VS{16} Now [some] of the disciples from Caesarea also came with us,
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bringing [one] with whom we should stay, a certain Manson [of] Cyrpis, [an] early
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disciple.
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\VS{17} Now when we came to be in Jerusalem, the brothers gladly
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received us.
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\VS{18} So on the next [day] Paul went in with us to James, and all
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the elders arrived.
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\VS{19} And having greeted them, he described [one] by one
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each [thing] which God did among the nations\footnote{i.e. the Gentiles} through
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his service.
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\VS{20} So having heard, they were glorifying God, and said to
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him: You behold, O brother, how many thousands there are in Jerusalem of
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those having believed, and all are zealots of the law.
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\VS{21} So they have
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reported concerning you that you teach all the Jews among the nations
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apostasy from Moses, telling them not to be circumcising [their] children or to be
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walking [after] the customs.
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\VS{22} What therefore is [it] the multitude must
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certainly come together, for they will hear that you are come.
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\VS{23}
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Therefore do this [thing] that we say to you: There are among us four men having
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[a] vow upon themselves.
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\VS{24} Having taken these [men], be purified them, and pay
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them in order that they shave [your] head, and all will know that what they
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reported concerning you is nothing, but [that] you yourself hold to the law,
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guarding [it].
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\VS{25} Now concerning the nations\footnote{i.e. the Gentiles}
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having believed, we instructed [by letter], having decided [they should] keep themselves from idols
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and [drinking] blood and strangled [animals] and fornication.
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\VS{26} Then Paul having taken
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these men on the next day, having been purified with them, he went into the
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temple, proclaiming the fulfillment of the days of purification, until which
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the offering was given in behalf of each one of them.
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\VS{27} Now as the seven days were [about] to be completed, Jews from Asia, having
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beheld him in the temple, stirred up the crowd, and put on him [their] hands,
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\VS{28} crying: Men of Israel! Help! This is the man teaching everyone
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everywhere against the people and the law and this place, and yet he also
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brought Greeks into the temple and has made common\footnote{i.e. defiled}
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this holy place.
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\VS{29} For they had previously seen Trophimos the Ephesian
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in the city with him, whom they were thinking that Paul brought [him] into the
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temple.
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\VS{30} And the whole city was moved and a forming mob of the people
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came to pass, and having seized Paul they dragged him out of the temple, and
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straightway the doors were shut.
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\VS{31} And seeking to be killing him, the
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report was brought up to the cohort commander that all Jerusalem is
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confounded,
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\VS{32} who at once having taken soldiers and centurions ran
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down upon them. Now having seen the centurions and the soldiers, they
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stopped beating Paul.
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\VS{33} Then the commander having drawn near, he
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seized him and ordered [him] to be bound with two chains, and he was inquiring
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who he might be and what has he done.
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\VS{34} But others in the crowd were
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crying out something other. Now he not being able to know the certain
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[facts] because of the uproar, he ordered him to be brought to [their] military base.
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\VS{35} Now when he came to be upon the stairs, it happened he was carried by
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the soldiers because of the violence of the crowd,
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\VS{36} for the multitude
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of the people followed crying out: Away with him!
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\VS{37} Now being [about] to
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enter into the military base, Paul says to the commander: Is it possible for
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me to say something to you? So he said: You know Greek?
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\VS{38} You then are
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not the Egyptian before these days having raised and having led out into the
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wilderness the four thousand men of the assassins?
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\VS{39} So Paul said: I
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indeed am [a] Jewish man, of Tarsus, of Kilikia, not [a] citizen of [an] insignificant
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city; so I request [of you], permit me to speak to the people.
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\VS{40} So he having
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permitted him, Paul having stood on the steps, motioned with [his] hand to the
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people. Now [a] great silence having come to pass, he addressed [them] in the Hebrew
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language saying:
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