[영어 성경] Acts chapter 21

Ac. 21:1 After we had torn ourselves away from them, we put out to

sea and sailed straight to Cos. The next day we went to

Rhodes and from there to Patara.

Ac. 21:2 We found a ship crossing over to Phoenicia, went on board

and set sail.

Ac. 21:3 After sighting Cyprus and passing to the south of it, we sailed

on to Syria. We landed at Tyre, where our ship was to unload

its cargo.

Ac. 21:4 Finding the disciples there, we stayed with them seven days.

Through the Spirit they urged Paul not to go on to Jerusalem.

Ac. 21:5 But when our time was up, we left and continued on our

way. All the disciples and their wives and children

accompanied us out of the city, and there on the beach we

knelt to pray.

Ac. 21:6 After saying good-bye to each other, we went aboard the

ship, and they returned home.

Ac. 21:7 We continued our voyage from Tyre and landed at Ptolemais,

where we greeted the brothers and stayed with them for a

day.

Ac. 21:8 Leaving the next day, we reached Caesarea and stayed at the

house of Philip the evangelist, one of the Seven.

Ac. 21:9 He had four unmarried daughters who prophesied.

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Ac. 21:10 After we had been there a number of days, a prophet named

Agabus came down from Judea.

Ac. 21:11 Coming over to us, he took Paul’s belt, tied his own hands

and feet with it and said, “The Holy Spirit says, `In this way

the Jews of Jerusalem will bind the owner of this belt and will

hand him over to the Gentiles.’“

Ac. 21:12 When we heard this, we and the people there pleaded with

Paul not to go up to Jerusalem.

Ac. 21:13 Then Paul answered, “Why are you weeping and breaking my

heart? I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die in

Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.”

Ac. 21:14 When he would not be dissuaded, we gave up and said, “The

Lord’s will be done.”

Ac. 21:15 After this, we got ready and went up to Jerusalem.

Ac. 21:16 Some of the disciples from Caesarea accompanied us and

brought us to the home of Mnason, where we were to stay.

He was a man from Cyprus and one of the early disciples.

Ac. 21:17 When we arrived at Jerusalem, the brothers received us

warmly.

Ac. 21:18 The next day Paul and the rest of us went to see James, and

all the elders were present.

Ac. 21:19 Paul greeted them and reported in detail what God had done

among the Gentiles through his ministry.

Ac. 21:20 When they heard this, they praised God. Then they said to

Paul: “You see, brother, how many thousands of Jews have

believed, and all of them are zealous for the law.

Ac. 21:21 They have been informed that you teach all the Jews who live

among the Gentiles to turn away from Moses, telling them

not to circumcise their children or live according to our

customs.

Ac. 21:22 What shall we do? They will certainly hear that you have

come,

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Ac. 21:23 so do what we tell you. There are four men with us who have

made a vow.

Ac. 21:24 Take these men, join in their purification rites and pay their

expenses, so that they can have their heads shaved. Then

everybody will know there is no truth in these reports about

you, but that you yourself are living in obedience to the law.

Ac. 21:25 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.”

Ac. 21:26 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.

Ac. 21:27 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,

Ac. 21:28 shouting, “Men of Israel, help us! This is the man who

teaches all men everywhere against our people and our law

and this place. And besides, he has brought Greeks into the

temple area and defiled this holy place.”

Ac. 21:29 (They had previously seen Trophimus the Ephesian in the city

with Paul and assumed that Paul had brought him into the

temple area.)

Ac. 21:30 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.

Ac. 21:31 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.

Ac. 21:32 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.

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Ac. 21:33 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.

Ac. 21:34 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.

Ac. 21:35 When Paul reached the steps, the violence of the mob was so

great he had to be carried by the soldiers.

Ac. 21:36 The crowd that followed kept shouting, “Away with him!”

Ac. 21:37 As the soldiers were about to take Paul into the barracks, he

asked the commander, “May I say something to you?” “Do

you speak Greek?” he replied.

Ac. 21:38 “Aren’t you the Egyptian who started a revolt and led four

thousand terrorists out into the desert some time ago?”

Ac. 21:39 Paul answered, “I am a Jew, from Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen

of no ordinary city. Please let me speak to the people.”

Ac. 21:40 Having received the commander’s permission, Paul stood on

the steps and motioned to the crowd. When they were all

silent, he said to them in Aramaic: [Or possibly Hebrew; also

in 22:2]