Archive THE BIBLE - Verse by Verse (Acts Chapter 1 to 28)

[Pastor Gary]

Acts 21:21 (WEB) - 21 They have been informed about you, that you teach all the Jews who are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children and not to walk after the customs.

 

[Pastor Gary]

Acts 21:22 (WEB) - 22 What then? The assembly must certainly meet, for they will hear that you have come.

 

[Cosia]

Acts 21:23 (WEB)
Therefore do what we tell you. We have four men who have taken a vow.

 

[Cosia]

Acts 21:24 (WEB)
Take them and purify yourself with them, and pay their expenses for them, that they may shave their heads. Then all will know that there is no truth in all the things they have been informed about you, boats that you yourself also walk keeping the the law.
 

 

[Cosia]

Acts 21:25 (WEB)
But concerning the Gentiles who believe we have written our decision that they should observe no such thing, except that they should keep themselves from food offered to idols, from blood, from strangled things, and from sexual immorality."

 

[bobinfaith]

Acts 21:26, 26 Then Paul took the men, and the next day he purified himself along with them and went into the temple, giving notice when the days of purification would be fulfilled and the offering presented for each one of them. - ESV

 

[Cosia]

Acts 21:27 (WEB)
When the seven days were almost completed, the Jews from Asia, when they saw him in the temple, stirred up all the multitude and laid hands on him,

 

[Cosia]

Acts 21:28 (WEB)
crying out, "All men of Israel, help! This is the man who teaches all men everywhere against the people, and the law, and this place. Moreover he brought Greeks into the temple and has defiled this holy place!"

 

[Cosia]

Acts 21:29 (WEB)
Gor they had seen Trophimus the Ephesian, with him in the city, and they supposed Paul had brought him into the temple.

 

[bobinfaith]

Acts 21:30,30 Then all the city was stirred up, and the people ran together. They seized Paul and dragged him out of the temple, and at once the gates were shut. - ESV

 

[Cosia]

Acts 21:31 (WEB)
As they were trying to kill him, news came up to the commanding officer of the regiment that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.

 

[Cosia]

Acts 21:32 (WEB)
Immediately he took soldiers and centurions and ran down to them. They, when they saw the chief captain and the soldiers stopped beating Paul.

 

[Cosia]

Acts 21:33 (WEB)
Then the commanding officer came near, arrested him, commanded him to be bound with two chains, and inquired who he was and what he had done.

 

[Cosia]

Acts 21:34 (WEB)
Some shouted one thing and another, among the crowd. When he couldn't find out the trurh because of the noise, he commanded him to be brought into the barracks.

 

[bobinfaith]

Acts 21:35, 35 When Paul reached the steps, the violence of the mob was so great he had to be carried by the soldiers. - NIV

 

[PaducahLuke]

Acts 21:36 (WEB)

36 for the multitude of the people followed after, crying out, “Away with him!”

 

[PaducahLuke]

Acts 21:37 (WEB)

37 As Paul was about to be brought into the barracks, he asked the commanding officer, “May I speak to you?”

He said, “Do you know Greek?

 

[PaducahLuke]

Acts 21:38 (WEB)

38 Aren’t you then the Egyptian who before these days stirred up to sedition and led out into the wilderness the four thousand men of the Assassins?”

 

[Pastor Gary]

Acts 21:39 (WEB) - 39 But Paul said, “I am a Jew from Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no insignificant city. I beg you, allow me to speak to the people.”

 

[Pastor Gary]

Acts 21:40 (WEB) - 40 When he had given him permission, Paul, standing on the stairs, beckoned with his hand to the people. When there was a great silence, he spoke to them in the Hebrew language, saying,