Acts 21:4-25

⁴And having found out the disciples, we tarried there seven days, and they said to Paul, through the Spirit, not to go up to Jerusalem;

⁵but when it came that we completed the days, having gone forth, we went on, all bringing us on the way, with women and children, unto the outside of the city, and having bowed the knees upon the shore, we prayed,

⁶and having embraced one another, we embarked in the ship, and they returned to their own friends.

⁷And we, having finished the course, from Tyre came down to Ptolemais, and having saluted the brethren, we remained one day with them;

⁸and on the morrow Paul and his company having gone forth, we came to Caesarea, and having entered into the house of Philip the evangelist — who is of the seven — we remained with him,

⁹and this one had four daughters, virgins, prophesying.

¹⁰And we remaining many more days, there came down a certain one from Judea, a prophet, by name Agabus,

¹¹and he having come unto us, and having taken up the girdle of Paul, having bound also his own hands and feet, said, 'Thus saith the Holy Spirit, The man whose is this girdle — so shall the Jews in Jerusalem bind, and they shall deliver him up to the hands of nations.'

¹²And when we heard these things, we called upon him — both we, and those of that place — not to go up to Jerusalem,

¹³and Paul answered, 'What do ye — weeping, and crushing mine heart? for I, not only to be bound, but also to die at Jerusalem, am ready, for the name of the Lord Jesus;'

¹⁴and he not being persuaded, we were silent, saying, 'The will of the Lord be done.'

¹⁵And after these days, having taken our vessels, we were going up to Jerusalem,

¹⁶and there went also of the disciples from Caesarea with us, bringing with them him with whom we may lodge, a certain Mnason of Cyprus, an aged disciple.

¹⁷And we having come to Jerusalem, the brethren did gladly receive us,

¹⁸and on the morrow Paul was going in with us unto James, all the elders also came,

¹⁹and having saluted them, he was declaring, one by one, each of the things God did among the nations through his ministration,

²⁰and they having heard, were glorifying the Lord. They said also to him, 'Thou seest, brother, how many myriads there are of Jews who have believed, and all are zealous of the law,

²¹and they are instructed concerning thee, that apostasy from Moses thou dost teach to all Jews among the nations, saying — Not to circumcise the children, nor after the customs to walk;

²²what then is it? certainly the multitude it behoveth to come together, for they will hear that thou hast come.

²³'This, therefore, do that we say to thee: We have four men having a vow on themselves,

²⁴these having taken, be purified with them, and be at expence with them, that they may shave the head, and all may know that the things of which they have been instructed concerning thee are nothing, but thou dost walk — thyself also — the law keeping.

²⁵'And concerning those of the nations who have believed, we have written, having given judgment, that they observe no such thing, except to keep themselves both from idol-sacrifices, and blood, and a strangled thing, and whoredom.'