Acts 21:15-25

Paul at Jerusalem

15 After these days we got ready and ¹started on our way up to Jerusalem.

16 Some of ²the disciples from ³Caesarea also came with us, taking us to Mnason of ⁴Cyprus, a ⁵disciple of long standing with whom we were to lodge.

17 After we arrived in Jerusalem, ⁶the brethren received us gladly.

18 And the following day Paul went in with us to ⁷James, and all ⁸the elders were present.

19 After he had greeted them, he ⁹began to relate one by one the things which God had done among the Gentiles through his ¹⁰ministry.

20 And when they heard it they began ¹¹glorifying God; and they said to him, "You see, brother, how many thousands there are among the Jews of those who have believed, and they are all ¹²zealous for the Law;

21 and they have been told about you, that you are ¹³teaching all the Jews who are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, telling them ¹⁴not to circumcise their children nor to walk according to ¹⁵the customs.

22 "What, then, is to be done? They will certainly hear that you have come.

23 "Therefore do this that we tell you. We have four men who ¹⁶are under * a vow;

24 take them and ¹⁷purify yourself along with them, and pay their expenses so that they may ¹⁸shave their heads; and all will know that there is nothing to the things which they have been told about you, but that you yourself also walk orderly, keeping the Law.

25 "But concerning the Gentiles who have believed, we wrote, ¹⁹having decided that they should abstain from meat sacrificed to idols and from blood and from what is strangled and from fornication."