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.’ ²⁶Then Paul, having taken the men, on the following day, with them having purified himself, was entering into the temple, announcing the fulfilment of the days of the purification, till the offering was offered for each one of them.

²⁷And, as the seven days were about to be fully ended, the Jews from Asia having beheld him in the temple, were stirring up all the multitude, and they laid hands upon him, ²⁸crying out, ‘Men, Israelites, help! this is the man who, against the people, and the law, and this place, all everywhere is teaching; and further, also, Greeks he brought into the temple, and hath defiled this holy place;’

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