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Acts 21:27

Good News Translation

But just when the seven days were about to come to an end, some Jews from the province of Asia saw Paul in the Temple. They stirred up the whole crowd and grabbed Paul.

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There was no one else who had devoted himself so completely to doing wrong in the Lord's sight as Ahab—all at the urging of his wife Jezebel.

Those who touch a corpse are ritually unclean for seven days.

When you complete your nazirite vow, you shall perform this ritual. You shall go to the entrance of the Tent

If your consecrated hair is defiled because you are right beside someone who suddenly dies, you must wait seven days and then shave your head; and so you become ritually clean.

Before all these things take place, however, you will be arrested and persecuted; you will be handed over to be tried in synagogues and be put in prison; you will be brought before kings and rulers for my sake.

But the Jews stirred up the leading men of the city and the Gentile women of high social standing who worshiped God. They started a persecution against Paul and Barnabas and threw them out of their region.

Some Jews came from Antioch in Pisidia and from Iconium; they won the crowds over to their side, stoned Paul and dragged him out of the town, thinking that he was dead.

But the Jews who would not believe stirred up the Gentiles and turned them against the believers.

Then some Gentiles and Jews, together with their leaders, decided to mistreat the apostles and stone them.

They traveled through the region of Phrygia and Galatia because the Holy Spirit did not let them preach the message in the province of Asia.

But when the Jews in Thessalonica heard that Paul had preached the word of God in Berea also, they came there and started exciting and stirring up the mobs.

When Gallio was made the Roman governor of Achaia, Jews there got together, seized Paul, and took him into court.

We are from Parthia, Media, and Elam; from Mesopotamia, Judea, and Cappadocia; from Pontus and Asia,

With all humility and many tears I did my work as the Lord's servant during the hard times that came to me because of the plots of some Jews.

As you can find out for yourself, it was no more than twelve days ago that I went to Jerusalem to worship.

It was while I was doing this that they found me in the Temple after I had completed the ceremony of purification. There was no crowd with me and no disorder.

It was for this reason that these Jews seized me while I was in the Temple, and they tried to kill me.

So they arrested them and put them in jail until the next day, since it was already late.

They arrested the apostles and put them in the public jail.

In this way they stirred up the people, the elders, and the teachers of the Law. They seized Stephen and took him before the Council.

But he was opposed by some men who were members of the synagogue of the Freedmen (as it was called), which had Jews from Cyrene and Alexandria. They and other Jews from the provinces of Cilicia and Asia started arguing with Stephen.

In my many travels I have been in danger from floods and from robbers, in danger from my own people and from Gentiles; there have been dangers in the cities, dangers in the wilds, dangers on the high seas, and dangers from false friends.

They even tried to stop us from preaching to the Gentiles the message that would bring them salvation. In this way they have brought to completion all the sins they have always committed. And now God's anger has at last come down on them!




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