Acts 21:24-34

24 Take these men, join in their purification rites and pay their expenses, so that they can have their heads shaved. Then everyone will know there is no truth in these reports about you, but that you yourself are living in obedience to the law.
25 As for the Gentile believers, we have written to them our decision that they should abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals and from sexual immorality.”
26 The next day Paul took the men and purified himself along with them. Then he went to the temple to give notice of the date when the days of purification would end and the offering would be made for each of them.

Paul Arrested

27 When the seven days were nearly over, some Jews from the province of Asia saw Paul at the temple. They stirred up the whole crowd and seized him,
28 shouting, “Fellow Israelites, help us! This is the man who teaches everyone everywhere against our people and our law and this place. And besides, he has brought Greeks into the temple and defiled this holy place.”
29 (They had previously seen Trophimus the Ephesian in the city with Paul and assumed that Paul had brought him into the temple.)
30 The whole city was aroused, and the people came running from all directions. Seizing Paul, they dragged him from the temple, and immediately the gates were shut.
31 While they were trying to kill him, news reached the commander of the Roman troops that the whole city of Jerusalem was in an uproar.
32 He at once took some officers and soldiers and ran down to the crowd. When the rioters saw the commander and his soldiers, they stopped beating Paul.
33 The commander came up and arrested him and ordered him to be bound with two chains. Then he asked who he was and what he had done.
34 Some in the crowd shouted one thing and some another, and since the commander could not get at the truth because of the uproar, he ordered that Paul be taken into the barracks.

Cross References 16

  • 1. ver 26; Acts 24:18
  • 2. Acts 18:18
  • 3. Acts 15:20,29
  • 4. Numbers 6:13-20; Acts 24:18
  • 5. Jeremiah 26:8; Acts 24:18; Acts 26:21; S 1 Thessalonians 2:16
  • 6. Matthew 24:15; Acts 6:13; Acts 24:5,6
  • 7. Acts 20:4; 2 Timothy 4:20
  • 8. S Acts 18:19
  • 9. Acts 26:21
  • 10. S Acts 16:19
  • 11. Acts 23:27
  • 12. ver 11
  • 13. Acts 12:6
  • 14. Acts 20:23; Acts 22:29; Ephesians 6:20; 2 Timothy 2:9
  • 15. Acts 19:32
  • 16. ver 37; Acts 22:24; Acts 23:10,16,32
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