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When we heard this, both we and the people there begged him not to go up to Yerushalayim;
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but Sha'ul answered, "What are you doing, crying and trying to weaken my resolve? I am prepared not only to be tied up, but even to die in Yerushalayim for the name of the Lord Yeshua."
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And when he would not be convinced, we said, "May the Lord's will be done," and kept quiet.
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So at the end of our stay, we packed and went up to Yerushalayim;
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and with us went some of the talmidim from Caesarea. They brought us to the home of the man with whom we were to stay, Mnason from Cyprus, who had been a talmid since the early days.
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In Yerushalayim, the brothers received us warmly.
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The next day Sha'ul and the rest of us went in to Ya'akov, and all the elders were present.
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After greeting them, Sha'ul described in detail each of the things God had done among the Gentiles through his efforts.
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On hearing it, they praised God; but they also said to him, "You see, brother, how many tens of thousands of believers there are among the Judeans, and they are all zealots for the Torah.
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Now what they have been told about you is that you are teaching all the Jews living among the Goyim to apostatize from Moshe, telling them not to have a b'rit-milah for their sons and not to follow the traditions.
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"What, then, is to be done? They will certainly hear that you have come.