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of the Lord Jesus.
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And when he would not be persuaded, we ceased, saying, The will of the Lord
be done.
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And after those days we took up our carriages, and went up to Jerusalem.
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There went with
us also
certain
of the disciples of Caesarea, and brought with them one Mnason of Cyprus, an old
disciple, with whom we should lodge.
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And when we were come to Jerusalem, the brethren
received us gladly.
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And the
day
following Paul went in with us unto James; and all the elders
were present.
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And when he had saluted them, he declared particularly what things God had
wrought among the Gentiles by his ministry.
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And when they heard
it,
they glorified the Lord,
and said unto him, Thou seest, brother, how many thousands of Jews there are which believe; and
they are all zealous of the law:
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And they are informed of thee, that thou teachest all the Jews
which are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, saying that they ought not to circumcise
their
children, neither to walk after the customs.
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What is it therefore? the multitude must needs come
together: for they will hear that thou art come.
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Do therefore this that we say to thee: We have
four men which have a vow on them;
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Them take, and purify thyself with them, and be at charges
with them, that they may shave
their
heads: and all may know that those things, whereof they were
informed concerning thee, are nothing; but
that
thou thyself also walkest orderly, and keepest the
law.
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As touching the Gentiles which believe, we 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.
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Then Paul took the men, and the next day purifying
himself with them entered into the temple, to signify the accomplishment of the days of purification,
until that an offering should be offered for every one of them.
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And when the seven days were almost ended, the Jews which were of Asia, when they saw
him in the temple, stirred up all the people, and laid hands on him,
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Crying out, Men of Israel,
help: This is the man, that teacheth all
men
every where against the people, and the law, and this
place: and further brought Greeks also into the temple, and hath polluted this holy place.
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(For
they had seen before with him in the city Trophimus an Ephesian, whom they supposed that Paul
had brought into the temple.)
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And all the city was moved, and the people ran together: and they
took Paul, and drew him out of the temple: and forthwith the doors were shut.
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And as they went
about to kill him, tidings came unto the chief captain of the band, that all Jerusalem was in an
uproar.
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Who immediately took soldiers and centurions, and ran down unto them: and when they
saw the chief captain and the soldiers, they left beating of Paul.
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Then the chief captain came
near, and took him, and commanded
him
to be bound with two chains; and demanded who he was,
and what he had done.
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And 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 the castle.
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And when he came upon the stairs, so it was, that he was borne of the soldiers for the violence
of the people.
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For the multitude of the people followed after, crying, Away with him.
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And as
Paul was to be led into the castle, he said unto the chief captain, May I speak unto thee? Who said,
Canst thou speak Greek?
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Art not thou that Egyptian, which before these days madest an uproar,
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