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Paul Goes to Jerusalem

¹After we said goodbye to the eldersa, we sailed away straight to Cos island. The next day we went to the island of Rhodes, and from there we went to Patara. ²There we found a ship that was going to the area of Phoenicia. We got on the ship and sailed away.
³We sailed near the island of Cyprus. We could see it on the north side, but we did not stop. We sailed to the country of Syria. We stopped at Tyre because the ship needed to unload its cargo there. ⁴We found the Lord's followers there and stayed with them for seven days. They warned Paul not to go to Jerusalem because of what the Spiritb had told them. ⁵But when our time there was up, we returned to the ship to continue our trip. All the followers, even the women and children, came with us to the seashore. We all knelt down on the beach, prayed, ⁶and said goodbye. Then we got on the ship, and the followers went home.
⁷We continued our trip from Tyre and went to the city of Ptolemais. We greeted the believersc there and stayed with them one day. ⁸The next day we left Ptolemais and went to the city of Caesarea. We went into the home of Philip and stayed with him. He had the work of telling the Good Newsd. He was one of the seven helperse. ⁹He had four unmarried daughters who had the gift of prophesyingf.
¹⁰After we had been there for several days, a prophetg named Agabus came from Judea. ¹¹He came to us and borrowed Paul's belt. He used it to tie his own hands and feet. He said, "The Holy Spirit tells me, 'This is how the Jews in Jerusalem will tie up the man who wears this belth. Then they will hand him over to people who don't know God.'"
¹²When we heard this, we and the other followers there begged Paul not to go to Jerusalem. ¹³But he said, "Why are you crying and making me feel so sad? I am willing to be put in jail in Jerusalem. I am even ready to die for the name of the Lord Jesus!"
¹⁴We could not persuade him to stay away from Jerusalem. So we stopped begging him and said, "We pray that what the Lord wants will be done."
¹⁵After this, we got ready and left for Jerusalem. ¹⁶Some of the followers of Jesus from Caesarea went with us. These followers took us to the home of Mnason, a man from Cyprus, who was one of the first people to be a follower of Jesus. They took us to his home so that we could stay with him.

Paul Visits James ¹⁷The brothers and sisters in Jerusalem were very happy to see us. ¹⁸The next day Paul went with us to visit James, and all the eldersa were there. ¹⁹After greeting them, Paul told them point by point all that God had used him to do among the non-Jewish people.
²⁰When the leaders heard this, they praised God. Then they said to Paul, "Brother, you can see that thousands of Jews have become believers, but they think it is very important to obey the Law of Mosesi. ²¹They have been told that you teach the Jews who live in non-Jewish regions to stop following the Law of Moses. They have heard that you tell them not to circumcisej their sons or follow our other customs.
²²"What should we do? The Jewish believers here will learn that you have come. ²³So we will tell you what to do: Four of our men have made a vowk to God. ²⁴Take these men with you and share in their cleansing ceremonyl. Pay their expenses so that they can shave their headsm. This will prove to everyone that the things they have heard about you are not true. They will see that you obey the Law of Moses in your own life.
²⁵"In regard to the non-Jewish believers, we have already sent a letter to them saying what we think they should do:

'Don't eat food that has been given to idolsn.
Don't eat meat from animals that have been strangled or any meat that still has the blood in it.
Don't be involved in sexual sin.'"

Paul Is Arrested ²⁶So Paul took the four men with him. The next day he shared in their cleansing ceremony. Then he went to the Templeo area and announced the time when the days of the cleansing ceremony would be finished. On the last day an offering would be given for each of the men.
²⁷When the seven-day period was almost finished, some Jews from Asiap saw Paul in the Temple area. They stirred up everyone into an angry mob. They grabbed Paul ²⁸and shouted, "Men of Israelq, help us! This is the man who is teaching things that are against the Law of Mosesi, against our people, and against this Temple of ours. This is what he teaches people everywhere. And now he has brought some Greeksr into the Temple area and has made this holy place unclean!" ²⁹(The Jews said this because they had seen Trophimus with Paul in Jerusalem. Trophimus was a man from Ephesus. The Jews thought that Paul had taken him into the holy area of the Temple.)
³⁰An angry reaction spread throughout the city, and everyone came running to the Temple. They grabbed Paul and dragged him out of the holy area, and the gates were closed immediately. ³¹While they were trying to kill Paul, the commander of the Roman army in Jerusalem got word that the whole city was in a state of riot. ³²Immediately the commander ran to where the crowd had gathered, taking with him some army officerss and soldiers. When the people saw the commander and his soldiers, they stopped beating Paul.
³³The commander went over to Paul and arrested him. He told his soldiers to tie him up with two chains. Then he asked, "Who is this man? What has he done wrong?" ³⁴Some people there were shouting one thing, and others were shouting something else. Because of all this confusion and shouting, the commander could not learn the truth about what had happened. So he told the soldiers to take Paul to the army building. ^35-³⁶The whole crowd was following them. When the soldiers came to the steps, they had to carry Paul. They did this to protect him, because the people were ready to hurt him. The people were shouting, "Kill him!"
³⁷When the soldiers were ready to take Paul into the army building, he asked the commander, "Can I say something to you?"
The commander said, "Oh, you speak Greek? ³⁸Then you are not the man I thought you were. I thought you were the Egyptian who started some trouble against the government not long ago and led four thousand terrorists out to the desert."
³⁹Paul said, "No, I am a Jew from Tarsus in the country of Cilicia. I am a citizen of that important city. Please, let me speak to the people."
⁴⁰The commander told Paul he could speak. So he stood on the steps and waved his hand so that the people would be quiet. The people became quiet and Paul spoke to them in Aramaict.

^aelders (New Testament) Men chosen to lead a local group of believers (church). Also called “overseers” and “pastors” (shepherds), they have the work of caring for God’s people. See Acts 14:23; 20:17, 28; Eph. 4:11; Php. 1:1; 1 Tim. 3:1-7; Tit. 1:5-9; 1 Pet. 5:1-3.
^bSpirit See “Holy Spirit.”
^cbeliever Where this word is marked, it is literally “brother,” a term used by followers of Jesus Christ to refer to fellow members of God’s family.
^dGood News In the Gospels this is usually the news about the coming of God’s kingdom (see above) or its representative Jesus the Messiah. In other places it is, more specifically, the news or message of God’s grace - that he has made a way through Jesus Christ for people to be made right with him and enjoy his blessings now and forever.
^e21:8 seven helpers Men chosen for a special work. See Acts 6:1-6.
^fprophesy To speak or teach things from God.
^gprophet A person who speaks a message from God. Many of the books in the Old Testament are messages spoken or written by “the prophets,” who were some of those God chose to speak for him. God often used dreams or visions to tell or show his prophets what they should say.
^h21:11 belt Paul’s belt; so Agabus means that the Jews in Jerusalem will tie Paul up (arrest him).
ⁱMoses One of the most important leaders of the Israelites during the time of the Old Testament. God used him to give the people his law, which is often called “the Law of Moses.”
^jcircumcise, circumcision Cutting off the foreskin of the male sex organ. This was done to every Jewish baby boy as a mark of the agreement God made with Abraham. Read Gen. 17:9-14. Sometimes “circumcision” is used with “heart” in the figurative sense of true devotion to God. (See Jer. 9:26; Rom. 2:28.) In the New Testament “circumcision” is also used in a spiritual sense to refer to the changed life of believers who have come to share in the new agreement God gave his people through Jesus. (See Php. 3:3; Col. 2:11.)
^k21:23 vow Probably a Nazirite vow, a time of special dedication and service promised to God. See “Nazirite” in the Word List.
^l21:24 cleansing ceremony The special things Jews did to end the Nazirite vow. Also in verse 26.
^m21:24 shave their heads To show that their vow was finished.
ⁿidol A statue of a false god that people worship. It can also mean anything that is more important to a person than God.
^oTemple The permanent building in Jerusalem that replaced the portable “Holy Tent” that was used by the Israelites from the time of their wandering in the desert to the reign of King Solomon, when the first Temple was built. Like the Holy Tent, the Temple was the center of Israelite worship, although provision was made for it to be “a house of prayer for all nations” (Isa. 56:7).
^pAsia The geographical area, sometimes called Asia Minor, that is now the western part of modern Turkey.
^qIsrael Another name for Jacob (see Gen. 32:24-28) and for the nation God chose to accomplish his plan of blessing the world through the Messiah (see “Messiah”). The people of Israel were the descendants of Jacob’s twelve sons. In the New Testament this name is sometimes used in a broader sense to mean all of God’s people.
^rGreek A non-Jewish person anywhere throughout the first century world who was influenced by Greek language and culture.
^sarmy officer A centurion, a Roman army officer who had authority over 100 soldiers.
^tAramaic The language of the Arameans, which became the main language of trade and diplomacy in the ancient near east during the Assyrian, the Neo-Babylonian, and Persian empires. Similar to Hebrew, it later became the common language of many Jews and is the spoken “Hebrew” referred to in the New Testament.

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