Acts 21:24

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Join with them and prepare yourself for the ceremony that goes with the promises. Pay the cost for their heads to be shaved. Then everyone will learn that the reports about you are not true. They will know that you do obey the Law of Moses.

Cross References

Job 1:5

After each feast, Job would send for his children and perform a ceremony, as a way of asking God to forgive them for any wrongs they might have done. He would get up early the next morning and offer a sacrifice for each of them, just in case they had sinned or silently cursed God.

Job 41:25

When this noisy monster appears, even the most powerful turn and run in fear.

Exodus 19:10

Once more the LORD spoke to Moses: Go back and tell the people that today and tomorrow they must get themselves ready to meet me. They must wash their clothes

Exodus 19:14

After Moses went down the mountain, he gave orders for the people to wash their clothes and make themselves acceptable to worship God.

Numbers 6:13

When you have completed your promised time of being a Nazirite, go to the sacred tent

Numbers 6:18

After that, you will stand at the entrance to the sacred tent, shave your head, and put the hair in the fire where the priest has offered the sacrifice to ask my blessing.

Numbers 6:5

Even the hair of a Nazirite is sacred to me, and as long as you are a Nazirite, you must never cut your hair.

Numbers 6:9

If someone suddenly dies near you, your hair is no longer sacred, and you must shave it seven days later during the ceremony to make you clean.

John 11:55

It was almost time for Passover. Many of the Jewish people who lived out in the country had come to Jerusalem to get themselves ready for the festival.

John 3:25

John's followers got into an argument with a Jewish man about a ceremony of washing.

Acts 18:18

After Paul had stayed for a while with the Lord's followers in Corinth, he said goodbye to them and sailed on to Syria with Aquila and Priscilla. But before he left, he had his head shaved at Cenchreae because he had made a promise to God.

Acts 21:26

The next day Paul took the four men with him and got himself ready at the same time they did. Then he went into the temple and told when the final ceremony would take place and when an offering would be made for each of them.

Acts 24:18

This is what I was doing when I was found going through a ceremony in the temple. I wasn't with a crowd, and there was no uproar.

1 Corinthians 9:20

When I am with the Jews, I live like a Jew to win Jews. They are ruled by the Law of Moses, and I am not. But I live by the Law to win them.

Galatians 2:12

He used to eat with Gentile followers of the Lord, until James sent some Jewish followers. Peter was afraid of the Jews and soon stopped eating with Gentiles.