Acts 24:18 - Plain English Version18 And I did the ceremony to make myself clean. Some Jewish people saw me there at God’s ceremony house. But I was by myself. There was no mob of people with me, and I was not getting anyone to go wild. Ver CapítuloMás versionesKing James Version (Oxford) 176918 Whereupon certain Jews from Asia found me purified in the temple, neither with multitude, nor with tumult. Ver CapítuloAmplified Bible - Classic Edition18 While I was engaged in presenting these, they found me [occupied in the rites of purification] in the temple, without any crowd or uproar. But some Jews from [the province of] Asia [were there], Ver CapítuloAmerican Standard Version (1901)18 amidst which they found me purified in the temple, with no crowd, nor yet with tumult: but there were certain Jews from Asia— Ver CapítuloCommon English Bible18 When they found me in the temple, I was ritually pure. There was no crowd and no disturbance. Ver CapítuloCatholic Public Domain Version18 through which I obtained purification in the temple: neither with a crowd, nor with a commotion. Ver Capítulo |
Some of us were born Jews, and some of us became Jews later. We are from a lot of different countries, and we can hear them talking in the languages of those countries. Some of us are from Parthia, and some from Media, and some from Elam, and some from Mesopotamia, and some from Judea, and some from Capadoshia, and some from Pontus, and some from Asia, and some from Frigia, and some from Pamfilia, and some from Egypt, and some from places in Libya near Cyrene, and some of us are from Crete, and some of us are from Arabia, and some of us are visiting from Rome. But all of us can hear these people talking in our own languages. They are talking about the wonderful things that God does.”
So you join those men, and go with them to God’s ceremony house, and do that ceremony with them, and pay for the things they buy. Then they can shave their heads. That’s our culture, to show that they have done everything they promised to do. And the people will see you do all that with those men at God’s ceremony house, and they will know that the things people told them about you are not true, and they will know that you do everything in our Jewish law and culture.