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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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