Acts 21:21-31

21 and they have been told about you, that you are ¹teaching all the Jews who are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, telling them ²not to circumcise their children nor to walk according to ³the 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 ⁴are under * a vow;

24 take them and ⁵purify yourself along with them, and pay their expenses so that they may ⁶shave 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, ⁷having decided that they should abstain from meat sacrificed to idols and from blood and from what is strangled and from fornication."

26 Then Paul took the men, and the next day, ⁸purifying himself along with them, ⁹went into the temple giving notice of the completion of the days of purification, until the sacrifice was offered for each one of them.

Paul Seized in the Temple

27 When ¹⁰the seven days were almost over, ¹¹the Jews from ¹²Asia, upon seeing him in the temple, began to stir up all the crowd and laid hands on him,

28 crying out, "Men of Israel, come to our aid! ¹³This is the man who preaches to all men everywhere against our people and the Law and this place; and besides he has even brought Greeks into the temple and has ¹⁴defiled this holy place."

29 For they had previously seen ¹⁵Trophimus the ¹⁶Ephesian in the city with him, and they supposed that Paul had brought him into the temple.

30 Then all the city was provoked, and the people rushed together, and taking hold of Paul they ¹⁷dragged him out of the temple, and immediately the doors were shut.

31 While they were seeking to kill him, a report came up to the commander of the ¹⁸Roman cohort that all Jerusalem was in confusion.