Acts 21:17-27

¹⁷When we arrived in Jerusalem, the believers there welcomed us warmly.

¹⁸The next day Paul went with us to see James, and all the church leaders were there.

¹⁹After greeting them, Paul went through in detail everything God had done for the foreigners through his ministry.

²⁰When they heard what had happened they praised God and told Paul, “Brother, you can see how many thousands of Jews have come to trust in the Lord, and they all keep the Law very carefully.

²¹They have been told that you teach Jews living among the foreigners to ignore the Law of Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children and not to follow our customs.

²²So what should we do about it? People will certainly get to hear that you've arrived here.

²³This is what we want you to do: Four men among us have taken a vow.

²⁴Go with them and perform the purification rituals with them, paying for them to have their heads shaved. That way everyone will know there's no truth to the rumors they've heard about you, but that you yourself observe the Law in the way that you live.

²⁵As to the foreigners who have trusted the Lord, we already wrote a letter regarding our decision that they should refrain from eating food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from any animal that is strangled, and from sexual immorality.”

²⁶So Paul took the men with him, and the next day went and purified himself with them. Then he went to the Temple to give notice regarding the end of the time of purification and the offering which would be made for each of them.

²⁷The seven days were almost over when some Jews from Asia saw Paul in the Temple and incited the crowd against him and seized him.