Acts 21:7-22

⁷Now upon arriving in Ptolemais, the voyage from Tyre ended; so greeting the brothers we stayed with them one day.

⁸Leaving the next day, we came to Caesarea; and entering the house of Philip the evangelist (being of ‘the Seven’), we stayed with him.

⁹(This man had four virgin daughters who prophesied.)

¹⁰Now as we stayed there a number of days, a certain prophet named Agabus came down from Judea.

¹¹Joining us he took Paul's belt, bound his feet and hands, and said, “Thus says the Holy Spirit: ‘In this way, in Jerusalem, the Jews will bind the man who owns this belt, and will deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.’ ”

¹²Well, when we heard these things, both we and the local residents, we pleaded with him not to go up to Jerusalem.

¹³But Paul answered: “What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die in Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.”

¹⁴When he would not be dissuaded, we stopped, saying, “Let the will of the Lord be done.”

¹⁵So after those days we got ready and went up to Jerusalem.

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.