DAY 23 FOR A GOAL OF REAING THE BOOK OF ACTS IN 30 DAYS

AC-21:22  What is it therefore? the multitude must needs come

together: for they will hear that thou art come.

AC-21:23  Do therefore this that we say to thee: We have four men

which have a vow on them;

AC-21:24  Them take, and purify thyself with them, and be at

charges

with them, that they may shave [their] heads: and all may know

that

those things, whereof they were informed concerning thee, are

nothing; but [that] thou thyself also walkest orderly, and

keepest

the law.

AC-21:25  As touching the Gentiles which believe, we have written

[and] concluded that they observe no such thing, save only that

they

keep themselves from [things] offered to idols, and from blood,

and

from strangled, and from fornication.

AC-21:26  Then Paul took the men, and the next day purifying

himself

with them entered into the temple, to signify the accomplishment

of

the days of purification, until that an offering should be

offered

for every one of them.

AC-21:27  And when the seven days were almost ended, the Jews

which

were of Asia, when they saw him in the temple, stirred up all the

people, and laid hands on him,

AC-21:28  Crying out, Men of Israel, help: This is the man, that

teacheth all [men] every where against the people, and the law,

and

this place: and further brought Greeks also into the temple, and

hath polluted this holy place.

AC-21:29  (For they had seen before with him in the city

Trophimus

an Ephesian, whom they supposed that Paul had brought into the

temple.)

AC-21:30  And all the city was moved, and the people ran

together:

and they took Paul, and drew him out of the temple: and forthwith

the doors were shut.

AC-21:31  And as they went about to kill him, tidings came unto

the

chief captain of the band, that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.

AC-21:32  Who immediately took soldiers and centurions, and ran

down

unto them: and when they saw the chief captain and the soldiers,

they left beating of Paul.

AC-21:33  Then the chief captain came near, and took him, and

commanded [him] to be bound with two chains; and demanded who he

was, and what he had done.

AC-21:34  And some cried one thing, some another, among the

multitude: and when he could not know the certainty for the

tumult,

he commanded him to be carried into the castle.

AC-21:35  And when he came upon the stairs, so it was, that he

was

borne of the soldiers for the violence of the people.

AC-21:36  For the multitude of the people followed after, crying,

Away with him.

AC-21:37  And as Paul was to be led into the castle, he said unto

the chief captain, May I speak unto thee? Who said, Canst thou

speak

Greek?

AC-21:38  Art not thou that Egyptian, which before these days

madest

an uproar, and leddest out into the wilderness four thousand men

that were murderers?

AC-21:39  But Paul said, I am a man [which am] a Jew of Tarsus,

[a

city] in Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city: and, I beseech thee,

suffer me to speak unto the people.

AC-21:40  And when he had given him licence, Paul stood on the

stairs, and beckoned with the hand unto the people. And when

there

was made a great silence, he spake unto [them] in the Hebrew

tongue,

saying,

*AC-22:1  Men, brethren, and fathers, hear ye my defence [which I

make] now unto you.

AC-22:2  (And when they heard that he spake in the Hebrew tongue

to

them, they kept the more silence: and he saith,)

AC-22:3  I am verily a man [which am] a Jew, born in Tarsus, [a

city] in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of

Gamaliel, [and] taught according to the perfect manner of the

law of

the fathers, and was zealous toward God, as ye all are this day.

AC-22:4  And I persecuted this way unto the death, binding and

delivering into prisons both men and women.

AC-22:5  As also the high priest doth bear me witness, and all

the

estate of the elders: from whom also I received letters unto the

brethren, and went to Damascus, to bring them which were there

bound

unto Jerusalem, for to be punished.

AC-22:6  And it came to pass, that, as I made my journey, and was

come nigh unto Damascus about noon, suddenly there shone from

heaven

a great light round about me.

AC-22:7  And I fell unto the ground, and heard a voice saying

unto

me, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?

AC-22:8  And I answered, Who art thou, Lord? And he said unto me,

 I

am Jesus of Nazareth, whom thou persecutest.

AC-22:9  And they that were with me saw indeed the light, and

were

afraid; but they heard not the voice of him that spake to me.

AC-22:10  And I said, What shall I do, Lord? And the Lord said

unto

me, Arise, and go into Damascus; and there it shall be told thee

of

all things which are appointed for thee to do.

AC-22:11  And when I could not see for the glory of that light,

being led by the hand of them that were with me, I came into

Damascus. 

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