Acts 21:23-33

23 Do therefore what we tell you. We have four men ¹who are under a vow;

24 take these men and ²purify yourself along with them and pay their expenses, ³so that they may shave their heads. Thus all will know that there is nothing in what they have been told about you, but that you yourself also live in observance of the law.

25 But as for the Gentiles who have believed, ⁴we have sent a letter with our judgment that they should abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what has been strangled,^[a] and from sexual immorality."

26 Then Paul took the men, and the next day ⁵he purified himself along with them and ⁶went into the temple, giving notice when the days of purification would be fulfilled and ⁷the offering presented for each one of them.

Paul Arrested in the Temple

27 When ⁸the seven days were almost completed, ⁹the Jews from Asia, ¹⁰seeing him in the temple, stirred up the whole crowd and laid hands on him,

28 crying out, "Men of Israel, help! This is the man who ¹¹is teaching everyone everywhere against the people and ¹²the law and ¹³this place. Moreover, he even brought Greeks into the temple and ¹⁴has defiled ¹⁵this holy place."

29 For they had previously seen ¹⁶Trophimus the Ephesian with him in the city, and they supposed that Paul had brought him into the temple.

30 Then all the city was stirred up, and the people ran together. They seized Paul and ¹⁷dragged him out of the temple, and at once the gates were shut.

31 ¹⁸And as they were seeking to kill him, word came to the tribune of ¹⁹the cohort that all Jerusalem was in confusion.

32 ²⁰He at once took soldiers and centurions and ran down to them. And when they saw the tribune and the soldiers, they stopped beating Paul.

33 Then the tribune came up and arrested him and ordered him ²¹to be bound ²²with two chains. He inquired who he was and what he had done.