These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
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Acts 21
Brit Hadashah 39 verses
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When, at last, we had torn ourselves away and had set sail, we ran in a straight course to Cos; the next day to Rhodes, and from there to Patara.
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Finding a ship bound for Phoenicia, we went on board and put to sea.
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- 3 After sighting Cyprus and leaving that island on our left, we continued our voyage to Syria and put in at ; for there the ship was to unload her cargo.
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Having searched for the disciples and found them, we stayed at for seven days; and, taught by the , they repeatedly urged not to proceed to .
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- 5 When, however, our time was up, we left and went on our way, all the disciples and their wives and children coming to see us off. Then, after kneeling down on the beach and praying,
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we took leave of one another; and we went on board, while they returned home.
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As for us, our voyage was over when having sailed from we reached Ptolemais. here we inquired after the welfare of the brethren, and remained a day with them.
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- 8 On the morrow we left Ptolemais and went on to Caesarea, where we came to the house of Philip the Evangelist, who was one of the seven, and stayed with him.
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and during our somewhat lengthy stay a Prophet of the of Agabus came down from Judaea.
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When he arrived he took Paul’s loincloth, and bound his own feet and arms with it, and said, “Thus says the Holy , ‘So will the Jews in bind the owner of this loincloth, and will hand him over to the Gentiles.’”
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As soon as we heard these words, both we and the brethren at Caesarea entreated not to go up to .
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His reply was, “What can you mean by thus breaking my with your grief? Why, as for me, I am ready not only to go to and be put in chains, but even to die there for the sake of the Lord .”
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So when he was not to be dissuaded, we ceased remonstrating with him and said, “The Lord’s will be done!”
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A few days afterwards we loaded our baggage-cattle and continued our journey to .
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- 16 Some of the disciples from Caesarea also joined our party, and brought with them Mnason, a Cyprian, one of the early disciples, at whose house we were to lodge.
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At length we reached , and there the brethren gave us a hearty welcome.
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On the following day we went with to call on , and all the Elders of the Church came also.
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- 19 After exchanging friendly greetings, told in detail all that had done among the Gentiles through his instrumentality.
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And they, when they had heard his statement, gave the to . Then they said, “You see, brother, how many tens of thousands of Jews there are among those who have accepted the , and they are all zealous upholders of the Law.
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Acts 22:3 Galatians 1:14 Romans 10:2 Acts 15:1 Acts 11:18 Acts 15:5 Acts 4:4 Isaiah 66:9-14 Matthew 13:31-33 Acts 6:7 Romans 15:6-7 Psalm 22:23 Isaiah 55:10-13 Acts 4:21 Psalm 98:1-3 Romans 15:9-13 2 Thessalonians 1:10 Luke 15:3-10 Acts 15:24 Acts 2:41 Psalm 72:17-19 Luke 15:32 Revelation 19:6-7 Luke 12:1 John 12:24 Galatians 1:24 Psalm 22:27 - 21 Now what they have been repeatedly told about you is that you teach all the Jews among the Gentiles to abandon , and that you forbid them to circumcise their children or observe old-established customs.
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What then ought you to do? They are sure to that you have come to ;
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so do this which we now tell you. We have four men here who have a vow resting on them.
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- 24 Associate with these men and purify yourself with them, and pay their expenses so that they can shave their heads. Then everybody will that there is no in these stories about you, but that in your own actions you yourself scrupulously obey the Law.
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But as for the Gentiles who have accepted the , we have communicated to them our decision that they are carefully to abstain from anything sacrificed to an idol, from , from what is strangled, and from fornication.”
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So associated with the men; and the next day, having purified himself with them, he went into the Temple, giving every one to understand that the days of their were finished, and there he remained until the for each of them was offered.
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But, when the seven days were nearly over, the Jews from the province of Asia, having seen in the Temple, set about rousing the fury of all the people against him.
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They laid hands on him, crying out, “Men of , help! help! This is the man who goes everywhere preaching to everybody against the Jewish people and the Law and this place. And besides, he has even brought Gentiles into the Temple and has desecrated this place.”
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The excitement spread through the whole city, and the people rushed in crowds to the Temple, and there laid hold of and began to drag him out; and the Temple gates were immediately closed.
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- 31 But while they were trying to kill , was taken up to the Tribune in command of the battalion, that all was in a ferment.
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He instantly sent for a few soldiers and their officers, and came down among the people with all speed. At the sight of the Tribune and the troops they ceased beating .
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- 33 Then the Tribune, making his way to him, arrested him, and, having ordered him to be secured with two chains, proceeded to ask who he was and what he had been doing.
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Some of the crowd shouted one accusation against and some another, until, as the uproar made it impossible for the to be ascertained with certainty, the Tribune ordered him to be brought into the barracks.
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When was going up the steps, he had to be carried by the soldiers because of the violence of the mob;
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for the whole mass of the people pressed on in the rear, shouting, “Away with him!”
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When he was about to be taken into the barracks, said to the Tribune, “May I speak to you?” “Do you Greek?” the Tribune asked.
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“Are you not the Egyptian who some years ago excited the riot of the 4,000 cut-throats, and led them out into the Desert?”
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“I am a Jew,” replied , “belonging to Tarsus in Cilicia, and am a citizen of no unimportant city. Give me leave, I pray you, to speak to the people.”
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- 40 So with his permission stood on the steps and motioned with his hand to the people to be quiet; and when there was silence he addressed them in Hebrew.