Acts 21:12

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

When we heard this, both we and the local people begged him not to go up to Jerusalem.

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  • Matt 16:21-23 : 21 First Prediction of Jesus’ Death and Resurrection From that time on Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, chief priests, and experts in the law, and be killed, and on the third day be raised. 22 So Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him:“God forbid, Lord! This must not happen to you!” 23 But he turned and said to Peter,“Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me, because you are not setting your mind on God’s interests, but on man’s.”
  • Acts 20:22 : 22 And now, compelled by the Spirit, I am going to Jerusalem without knowing what will happen to me there,
  • Acts 21:4 : 4 After we located the disciples, we stayed there seven days. They repeatedly told Paul through the Spirit not to set foot in Jerusalem.

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  • Acts 21:13-15
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    13Then Paul replied,“What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be tied up, but even to die in Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.”

    14Because he could not be persuaded, we said no more except,“The Lord’s will be done.”

    15After these days we got ready and started up to Jerusalem.

  • Acts 21:10-11
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    10While we remained there for a number of days, a prophet named Agabus came down from Judea.

    11He came to us, took Paul’s belt, tied his own hands and feet with it, and said,“The Holy Spirit says this:‘This is the way the Jews in Jerusalem will tie up the man whose belt this is, and will hand him over to the Gentiles.’”

  • Acts 21:4-7
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    4After we located the disciples, we stayed there seven days. They repeatedly told Paul through the Spirit not to set foot in Jerusalem.

    5When our time was over, we left and went on our way. All of them, with their wives and children, accompanied us outside of the city. After kneeling down on the beach and praying,

    6we said farewell to one another. Then we went aboard the ship, and they returned to their own homes.

    7We continued the voyage from Tyre and arrived at Ptolemais, and when we had greeted the brothers, we stayed with them for one day.

  • Acts 20:22
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    22And now, compelled by the Spirit, I am going to Jerusalem without knowing what will happen to me there,

  • Acts 19:30-31
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    30But when Paul wanted to enter the public assembly, the disciples would not let him.

    31Even some of the provincial authorities who were his friends sent a message to him, urging him not to venture into the theater.

  • Acts 28:21
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    21They replied,“We have received no letters from Judea about you, nor have any of the brothers come from there and reported or said anything bad about you.

  • Acts 21:17-19
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    17When we arrived in Jerusalem, the brothers welcomed us gladly.

    18The next day Paul went in with us to see James, and all the elders were there.

    19When Paul had greeted them, he began to explain in detail what God had done among the Gentiles through his ministry.

  • Acts 19:21
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    21A Riot in Ephesus Now after all these things had taken place, Paul resolved to go to Jerusalem, passing through Macedonia and Achaia. He said,“After I have been there, I must also see Rome.”

  • Acts 21:29-31
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    29(For they had seen Trophimus the Ephesian in the city with him previously, and they assumed Paul had brought him into the inner temple courts.)

    30The whole city was stirred up, and the people rushed together. They seized Paul and dragged him out of the temple courts, and immediately the doors were shut.

    31While they were trying to kill him, a report was sent up to the commanding officer of the cohort that all Jerusalem was in confusion.

  • Acts 22:18
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    18and saw the Lord saying to me,‘Hurry and get out of Jerusalem quickly, because they will not accept your testimony about me.’

  • Acts 18:20
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    20When they asked him to stay longer, he would not consent,

  • Acts 28:14
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    14There we found some brothers and were invited to stay with them seven days. And in this way we came to Rome.

  • Acts 16:21
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    21and are advocating customs that are not lawful for us to accept or practice, since we are Romans.”

  • Acts 25:2
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    2So the chief priests and the most prominent men of the Jews brought formal charges against Paul to him.

  • Acts 20:13
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    13The Voyage to Miletus We went on ahead to the ship and put out to sea for Assos, intending to take Paul aboard there, for he had arranged it this way. He himself was intending to go there by land.

  • Acts 22:21
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    21Then he said to me,‘Go, because I will send you far away to the Gentiles.’”

  • Acts 11:12
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    12The Spirit told me to accompany them without hesitation. These six brothers also went with me, and we entered the man’s house.

  • Acts 14:18-19
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    18Even by saying these things, they scarcely persuaded the crowds not to offer sacrifice to them.

    19But Jews came from Antioch and Iconium, and after winning the crowds over, they stoned Paul and dragged him out of the city, presuming him to be dead.

  • Luke 18:31
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    31Another Prediction of Jesus’ Passion Then Jesus took the twelve aside and said to them,“Look, we are going up to Jerusalem, and everything that is written about the Son of Man by the prophets will be accomplished.

  • Acts 16:39
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    39and came and apologized to them. After they brought them out, they asked them repeatedly to leave the city.

  • Acts 20:37
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    37They all began to weep loudly, and hugged Paul and kissed him,

  • Acts 11:22
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    22A report about them came to the attention of the church in Jerusalem, and they sent Barnabas to Antioch.

  • Acts 23:20-21
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    20He replied,“The Jews have agreed to ask you to bring Paul down to the council tomorrow, as if they were going to inquire more thoroughly about him.

    21So do not let them persuade you to do this, because more than forty of them are lying in ambush for him. They have bound themselves with an oath not to eat or drink anything until they have killed him, and now they are ready, waiting for you to agree to their request.”

  • Acts 15:24-25
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    24Since we have heard that some have gone out from among us with no orders from us and have confused you, upsetting your minds by what they said,

    25we have unanimously decided to choose men to send to you along with our dear friends Barnabas and Paul,

  • Acts 16:10
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    10After Paul saw the vision, we attempted immediately to go over to Macedonia, concluding that God had called us to proclaim the good news to them.

  • Acts 20:2
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    2After he had gone through those regions and spoken many words of encouragement to the believers there, he came to Greece,

  • Acts 15:36
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    36Paul and Barnabas Part Company After some days Paul said to Barnabas,“Let’s return and visit the brothers in every town where we proclaimed the word of the Lord to see how they are doing.”

  • Acts 21:36
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    36for a crowd of people followed them, screaming,“Away with him!”

  • Acts 23:12
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    12The Plot to Kill Paul When morning came, the Jews formed a conspiracy and bound themselves with an oath not to eat or drink anything until they had killed Paul.

  • 2 Cor 8:4
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    4begging us with great earnestness for the blessing and fellowship of helping the saints.

  • Acts 15:19
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    19“Therefore I conclude that we should not cause extra difficulty for those among the Gentiles who are turning to God,

  • Acts 26:21
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    21For this reason the Jews, after they seized me while I was in the temple courts, were trying to kill me.

  • Mark 10:33
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    33“Look, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be handed over to the chief priests and experts in the law. They will condemn him to death and will turn him over to the Gentiles.

  • Acts 15:2
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    2When Paul and Barnabas had a major argument and debate with them, the church appointed Paul and Barnabas and some others from among them to go up to meet with the apostles and elders in Jerusalem about this point of disagreement.

  • Acts 16:3
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    3Paul wanted Timothy to accompany him, and he took him and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those places, for they all knew that his father was Greek.

  • Matt 20:17
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    17Third Prediction of Jesus’ Death and Resurrection As Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, he took the twelve aside privately and said to them on the way,