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Acts 21:16-32

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16Some of the disciples from Caesarea also went with us, bringing us to a certain Mnason, of Cyprus, an early disciple, with whom we were to lodge.
17And when we arrived in Jerusalem the brothers received us gladly.
18The next day Paul, with us, went to see James, and all the elders were present.
19After greeting them he reported one by one the things that God had done among the Gentiles through his ministry.
20But after listening they ‘glorified’ the Lord by saying to him: “You see, brother, how many tens of thousands are the Jews who have believed, and they are all zealous for the law;
21but they have been informed about you that you teach all the Jews who are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children nor to walk according to our customs.
22What then? The assembly will certainly gather, since they will hear that you have come.
23So do this that we say to you: There are four men with us who have taken a vow.
24Take them and purify yourself with them, and pay their expenses so that they may shave their heads, and that all may know that there is nothing to the things that they have been informed about you; rather that you yourself are in line, keeping the law.
25But concerning the Gentiles who believe we have written, having judged that they need observe no such thing, except that they should keep themselves from that offered to idols, from the blood, from anything strangled, and from fornication.”
26Then Paul took the men and purified himself with them; the next day he entered the temple to give notice of the completion of the days of purification, when the offering would be made for each one of them.
27Now when the seven days were almost ended, the Jews from Asia, having seen him in the temple, mobilized a whole crowd and seized him,
28shouting: “Men of Israel, help! This is the man who teaches all men everywhere against the people, and the law, and this place. Not only that, he has even brought Greeks into the temple and defiled this holy place!”
29(They had seen Trophimus the Ephesian in the city with him, and they supposed that Paul had brought him into the temple.)
30The whole city was aroused and a mob of people formed. So having seized Paul they dragged him out of the temple, and immediately the doors were shut.
31As they were trying to kill him, news came to the commander of the garrison that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.
32He immediately took soldiers and centurions and ran down among them, and when they saw the commander and the soldiers they stopped beating Paul.

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