Acts 21:23–40

²³Do therefore this that we say to thee: We have four men which have ^ua vow on them; ²⁴them take, and ^tpurify thyself with them, and be at charges with them, that they may ^ushave their heads: and all may know that those things, whereof ^rthey were informed concerning thee, are nothing; but that thou thyself also walkest orderly, and keepest the law. ²⁵As touching the Gentiles which believe, ^xwe have written and concluded that they observe no such thing, save only that they keep themselves from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from strangled, and from fornication. ²⁶Then Paul took the men, and the next day ^tpurifying himself with them ^yentered into the temple, to signify the accomplishment of the days of purification, until that ^zan offering should be offered for every one of them. ²⁷And when ^athe seven days were almost ended, ^bthe Jews which were of ^cAsia, ^bdwhen they saw him in the temple, ^estirred up all the people, and ^flaid hands on him, ²⁸crying out, Men of Israel, help: This is the man, that teacheth all men every where against the people, and ^gthe law, and this place: and further brought Greeks also into the temple, and ^hhath polluted this holy place. ²⁹(For they had seen before with him in the city ⁱTrophimus an ^kEphesian, whom they supposed that Paul had brought into the temple.) ³⁰And all the city was moved, and the people ^lran together: and ^mthey took Paul, and drew him out of the temple: and forthwith the doors were shut. ³¹And as they went about to kill him, tidings came unto ⁿthe chief captain of the ^oband, that all Jerusalem ^ewas in an uproar. ^32pWho immediately took soldiers and centurions, and ran down unto them: and when they saw ⁿthe chief captain and the soldiers, they left beating of Paul. ³³Then ⁿthe chief captain came near, and took him, and commanded him ^qto be bound with ^rtwo chains; and demanded who he was, and what he had done. ³⁴And some cried one thing, some another, among the multitude: and when he could not know the certainty for the tumult, he commanded him to be carried into ^sthe castle. ³⁵And when he came upon ^tthe stairs, so it was, that he was borne of the soldiers for the violence of the people. ³⁶For the multitude of the people followed after, crying, ^uAway with him.

³⁷And as Paul was to be led into ^sthe castle, he said unto the ⁿchief captain, May I speak unto thee? Who said, Canst thou speak Greek? ^38vArt not thou that Egyptian, which before these days ^wmadest an uproar, and leddest out into ^xthe wilderness four thousand men that were murderers? ³⁹But Paul said, I am a man which am a Jew of ^yTarsus, a city in ^zCilicia, a citizen of no mean city: and, I beseech thee, suffer me to speak unto the people. ⁴⁰And when he had given him licence, Paul stood on ^tthe stairs, and ^abeckoned with the hand unto the people. And when there was made a great silence, he spake unto them in ^bthe Hebrew tongue, saying,

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