Acts 21:14-33

¹⁴When we coulde not turne his mynde we ceased sayinge: the will of the Lorde be fulfilled.

¹⁵After those dayes we made oure selfes redy and went vp to Ierusalem.

¹⁶There went with vs also certayne of his disciples of Cesarea and brought with them one Mnason of Cyprus an olde disciple with whom we shuld lodge.

¹⁷And when we were come to Ierusalem the brethren receaved vs gladly.

¹⁸And on the morowe Paul wet in with vs vnto Iames. And all the elders came to geder.

¹⁹And when he had saluted them he tolde by order all thinges that God had wrought amonge the getyls by his ministracion.

²⁰And when they hearde it they glorified the Lorde and sayde vnto him: thou seist brother how many thousande Iewes ther are which beleve and they are all zelous over the lawe.

²¹And they are informed of the that thou teachest all the Iewes which are amonge the gentyls to forsake Moses and sayst that they ought not to circumcise their chyldren nether to live after the customes.

²²What is it therfore? The multitude must nedes come togeder. For they shall heare that thou arte come.

²³Do therfore this that we saye to the. We have .iiii. men which have a vowe on them.

²⁴Them take and purifye thy selfe with them and do cost on them that they maye shave their heeddes and all shall knowe that tho thinges which they have hearde concerninge the are nothinge: but that thou thy selfe also walkest and kepest the lawe.

²⁵For as touchinge the gentyls which beleve we have written and concluded that they observe no soche thinges: but that they kepe them selves from thinges offred to ydoles from bloud from strangled and from fornicacion.

²⁶Then the nexte daye Paul toke the men and purified him selfe with them and entred into the temple declaringe that he observed the dayes of the purificacion vntyll that an offeringe shuld be offred for every one of them.

²⁷And as the seven dayes shuld have bene ended the Iewes which were of Asia when they sawe him in the temple they moved all the people and layde hondes on him

²⁸cryinge: men of Israel helpe. This is the man that teacheth all men every where agaynst the people and the lawe and this place. Moreover also he hath brought Grekes into the temple and hath polluted this holy place.

²⁹For they sawe one Trophimus an Ephesian with him in the cyte. Him they supposed Paul had brought into the temple.

³⁰And all the cyte was moved and the people swarmed to geder. And they toke Paul and drue him out of the temple and forthwith the dores were shut to.

³¹As they went about to kyll him tydinges came vnto the hye captayne of the soudiers that all Ierusalem was moved.

³²Which immediatly toke soudiers and vndercaptaynes and ranne doune vnto them. When they sawe the vpper captayne and the soudiers they lefte smytinge of Paul.

³³Then the captayne came neare and toke him and commaunded him to be bounde with two chaynes and demaunded what he was and what he had done.