Acts 21:1-4
THE TRIP TO JERUSALEM. From Miletus to Tyre:... [ Continue Reading ]
THE TRIP TO JERUSALEM. From Miletus to Tyre:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND IT CAME TO PASS THAT, AFTER WE WERE GOTTEN FROM THEM AND HAD LAUNCHED, WE CAME WITH A STRAIGHT COURSE UNTO COOS AND THE DAY FOLLOWING UNTO RHODES AND FROM THENCE UNTO PATARA;... [ Continue Reading ]
AND FINDING A SHIP SAILING OVER INTO PHOENICIA, WE WENT ABOARD AND SET FORTH.... [ Continue Reading ]
NOW, WHEN WE HAD DISCOVERED CYPRUS, WE LEFT IT ON THE LEFT HAND, AND SAILED INTO SYRIA AND LANDED AT TYRE; FOR THERE THE SHIP WAS TO UNLADE HER BURDEN.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND FINDING DISCIPLES, WE TARRIED THERE SEVEN DAYS; WHO SAID TO PAUL THROUGH THE SPIRIT THAT HE SHOULD NOT GO UP TO JERUSALEM. The leave-taking from the elders was attended with such difficulties that Paul and his companions literally had to tear themselves from their embraces, so bitterly did they... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN WE HAD ACCOMPLISHED THOSE DAYS, WE DEPARTED AND WENT OUR WAY; AND THEY ALL BROUGHT US ON OUR WAY, WITH WIVES AND CHILDREN, TILL WE WERE OUT OF THE CITY. AND WE KNEELED DOWN ON THE SHORE AND PRAYED.... [ Continue Reading ]
From Tyre to Caesarea:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN WE HAD TAKEN OUR LEAVE ONE OF ANOTHER, WE TOOK SHIP; AND THEY RETURNED HOME AGAIN.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN WE HAD FINISHED OUR COURSE FROM TYRE, WE CAME TO PTOLEMAIS, AND SALUTED THE BRETHREN, AND ABODE WITH THEM ONE DAY.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE NEXT DAY WE THAT WERE OF PAUL'S COMPANY DEPARTED AND CAME UNTO CAESAREA; AND WE ENTERED INTO THE HOUSE OF PHILIP THE EVANGELIST, WHICH WAS ONE OF THE SEVEN, AND ABODE WITH HIM.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE SAME MAN HAD FOUR DAUGHTERS, VIRGINS, WHICH DID PROPHESY. When Paul and his companions had accomplished the seven days, when they had finished the time, when the stated period was up during which they had remained for the cargo to be unloaded, they went out of the city to continue their trip... [ Continue Reading ]
AND AS WE TARRIED THERE MANY DAYS, THERE CAME DOWN FROM JUDEA A CERTAIN PROPHET, NAMED AGABUS.... [ Continue Reading ]
The prophecy of Agabus:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN HE WAS COME UNTO US, HE TOOK PAUL'S GIRDLE, AND BOUND HIS OWN HANDS AND FEET, AND SAID, THUS SAITH THE HOLY GHOST, SO SHALL THE JEWS AT JERUSALEM BIND THE MAN THAT OWNETH THIS GIRDLE, AND SHALL DELIVER HIM INTO THE HANDS OF THE GENTILES.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN WE HEARD THESE THINGS, BOTH WE AND THEY OF THAT PLACE BESOUGHT HIM NOT TO GO UP TO JERUSALEM.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN PAUL ANSWERED, WHAT MEAN YE TO WEEP AND TO BREAK MINE HEART? FOR I AM READY NOT TO BE BOUND ONLY, BUT ALSO TO DIE AT JERUSALEM FOR THE NAME OF THE LORD JESUS.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN HE WOULD NOT BE PERSUADED, WE CEASED, SAYING, THE WILL OF THE LORD BE DONE.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND AFTER THOSE DAYS WE TOOK UP OUR CARRIAGES AND WANT UP TO JERUSALEM.... [ Continue Reading ]
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. "Many days," a few days more, they, Paul and his companions, remained in Caesarea. Paul had been singularly fortunate in having a speedy voyage, a fac... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN WE WERE COME TO JERUSALEM, THE BRETHREN RECEIVED US GLADLY.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE JEWISH UPRISING AGAINST PAUL. The reception at Jerusalem:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE DAY FOLLOWING PAUL WENT WITH US UNTO JAMES; AND ALL THE ELDERS WERE PRESENT.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN HE HAD SALUTED THEM, HE DECLARED PARTICULARLY WHAT THINGS GOD HAD WROUGHT AMONG THE GENTILES BY HIS MINISTRY. When Paul and his companions reached Jerusalem, the brethren of the congregation received them with joy, much to the encouragement of them all. The next day there was a more formal... [ Continue Reading ]
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;... [ Continue Reading ]
A case of Jewish prejudice:... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHAT IS IT THEREFORE? THE MULTITUDE MUST NEEDS COME TOGETHER; FOR THEY WILL HEAR THAT THOU ART COME.... [ Continue Reading ]
DO THEREFORE THIS THAT WE SAY TO THEE: WE HAVE FOUR MEN WHICH HAVE A VOW ON THEM;... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
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. The rank and file of the congregation in Jerusalem was still strongly imp... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
The beginning of the riot:... [ Continue Reading ]
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,... [ Continue Reading ]
CRYING OUT, MEN OF ISRAEL, HELP! THIS IS THE MAN THAT TEACHETH ALL MEN EVERYWHERE AGAINST THE PEOPLE AND THE LAW AND THIS PLACE; AND FURTHER BROUGHT GREEKS ALSO INTO THE TEMPLE, AND HATH POLLUTED THIS HOLY PLACE.... [ Continue Reading ]
(FOR THEY HAD SEEN BEFORE WITH HIM IN THE CITY TROPHIMUS, AN EPHESIAN, WHOM THEY SUPPOSED THAT PAUL HAD BROUGHT INTO THE TEMPLE.)... [ Continue Reading ]
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. Paul here showed that the spirit of Christ lived in him, that he was willing, for the sake of others, to take part in a ceremony of which he knew that it ha... [ Continue Reading ]
AND AS THEY WENT ABOUT TO KILL HIM, TIDINGS CAME UNTO THE CHIEF CAPTAIN OF THE BAND THAT ALL JERUSALEM WAS IN AN UPROAR.... [ Continue Reading ]
The captain of the Roman band interferes:... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
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. It was a typical mob, without reason and sense, that was surging back and forth in the Court of the Gentiles, every one trying to lay... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN HE CAME UPON THE STAIRS, SO IT WAS THAT HE WAS BORNE OF THE SOLDIERS FOR THE VIOLENCE OF THE PEOPLE.... [ Continue Reading ]
On the way to the barracks:... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THE MULTITUDE OF THE PEOPLE FOLLOWED AFTER, CRYING, AWAY WITH HIM!... [ Continue Reading ]
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?... [ Continue Reading ]
ART NOT THOU THAT EGYPTIAN WHICH BEFORE THESE DAYS MADEST AN UPROAR, AND LEDDEST OUT INTO THE WILDERNESS FOUR THOUSAND MEN THAT WERE MURDERERS?... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT PAUL SAID, I AM A MAN WHICH AM A JEW OF TARSUS, A CITY IN CILICIA, A CITIZEN OF NO MEAN CITY; AND I BESEECH THEE, SUFFER ME TO SPEAK UNTO THE PEOPLE. At the coming of the tribune with his cohorts, the tumult of the people had died down somewhat: but when the soldiers turned to carry out their co... [ Continue Reading ]
PAUL'S SPEECH TO THE JEWS. Acts 21:40 ; Acts 22:1 Concerning Paul's early life and persecution of the Church: AND WHEN HE HAD GIVEN HIM LICENSE, PAUL STOOD ON THE STAIRS, AND BECKONED WITH THE HAND UNTO THE PEOPLE. AND WHEN THERE WAS MADE A GREAT SILENCE, HE SPAKE UNTO THEM IN THE HEBREW TONGUE, S... [ Continue Reading ]
MEN, BRETHREN, AND FATHERS, HEAR YE MY DEFENSE WHICH I MAKE NOW UNTO YOU.... [ Continue Reading ]
(AND WHEN THEY HEARD THAT HE SPAKE IN THE HEBREW TONGUE TO THEM, THEY KEPT THE MORE SILENCE; AND HE SAITH,)... [ Continue Reading ]
I AM VERILY A MAN WHICH AM A JEW, BORN IN TARSUS, A CITY IN CILICIA, YET BROUGHT UP IN THIS CITY AT THE FEET OF GAMALIEL, AND TAUGHT ACCORDING TO THE PERFECT MANNER OF THE LAW OF THE FATHERS, AND WAS ZEALOUS TOWARD GOD, AS YE ALL ARE THIS DAY.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND I PERSECUTED THIS WAY UNTO THE DEATH, BINDING AND DELIVERING INTO PRISONS BOTH MEN AND WOMEN,... [ Continue Reading ]
AS ALSO THE HIGH PRIEST DOTH BEAR ME WITNESS, AND ALL THE ESTATE OF THE ELDERS, FROM WHOM ALSO I RECEIVED LETTERS UNTO THE BRETHREN, AND WENT TO DAMASCUS TO BRING THEM WHICH WERE THERE BOUND UNTO JERUSALEM FOR TO BE PUNISHED. The commander of the garrison granted the request of Paul to speak to the... [ Continue Reading ]