Acts 21:12

World English Bible (2000)

When we heard these things, both we and they of that place begged him not to go up to Jerusalem.

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  • Matt 16:21-23 : 21 From that time, Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised up. 22 Peter took him aside, and began to rebuke him, saying, "Far be it from you, Lord! This will never be done to you." 23 But he turned, and said to Peter, "Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me, for you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of men."
  • Acts 20:22 : 22 Now, behold, I go bound by the Spirit to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there;
  • Acts 21:4 : 4 Having found disciples, we stayed there seven days. These said to Paul through the Spirit, that he should not go up to Jerusalem.

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    13Then Paul answered, "What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus."

    14When he would not be persuaded, we ceased, saying, "The Lord's will be done."

    15After these days we took up our baggage and went up to Jerusalem.

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    10As we stayed there some days, a certain prophet named Agabus came down from Judea.

    11Coming to us, and taking Paul's belt, he bound his own feet and hands, and said, "Thus says the Holy Spirit: 'So will the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man who owns this belt, and will deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.'"

  • Acts 21:4-7
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    4Having found disciples, we stayed there seven days. These said to Paul through the Spirit, that he should not go up to Jerusalem.

    5When it happened that we had accomplished the days, we departed and went on our journey. They all, with wives and children, brought us on our way until we were out of the city. Kneeling down on the beach, we prayed.

    6After saying goodbye to each other, we went on board the ship, and they returned home again.

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

  • 22Now, behold, I go bound by the Spirit to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there;

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    30When Paul wanted to enter in to the people, the disciples didn't allow him.

    31Certain also of the Asiarchs, being his friends, sent to him and begged him not to venture into the theater.

  • 21They said to him, "We neither received letters from Judea concerning you, nor did any of the brothers come here and report or speak any evil of you.

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    17When we had come to Jerusalem, the brothers received us gladly.

    18The day following, Paul went in with us to James; and all the elders were present.

    19When he had greeted them, he reported one by one the things which God had worked among the Gentiles through his ministry.

  • 21Now after these things had ended, Paul determined in the spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, "After I have been there, I must also see Rome."

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    29For they had seen Trophimus, the Ephesian, with him in the city, and they supposed that Paul had brought him into the temple.

    30All the city was moved, and the people ran together. They seized Paul and dragged him out of the temple. Immediately the doors were shut.

    31As they were trying to kill him, news came up to the commanding officer of the regiment that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.

  • 18and saw him saying to me, 'Hurry and get out of Jerusalem quickly, because they will not receive testimony concerning me from you.'

  • 20When they asked him to stay with them a longer time, he declined;

  • 14where we found brothers, and were entreated to stay with them for seven days. So we came to Rome.

  • 21and set forth customs which it is not lawful for us to accept or to observe, being Romans."

  • 2Then the high priest and the principal men of the Jews informed him against Paul, and they begged him,

  • 13But we who went ahead to the ship set sail for Assos, intending to take Paul aboard there, for he had so arranged, intending himself to go by land.

  • 21"He said to me, 'Depart, for I will send you out far from here to the Gentiles.'"

  • 12The Spirit told me to go with them, without discriminating. These six brothers also accompanied me, and we entered into the man's house.

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    18Even saying these things, they hardly stopped the multitudes from making a sacrifice to them.

    19But some Jews from Antioch and Iconium came there, and having persuaded the multitudes, they stoned Paul, and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead.

  • 31He took the twelve aside, and said to them, "Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and all the things that are written through the prophets concerning the Son of Man will be completed.

  • 39and they came and begged them. When they had brought them out, they asked them to depart from the city.

  • 37They all wept a lot, and fell on Paul's neck and kissed him,

  • 22The report concerning them came to the ears of the assembly which was in Jerusalem. They sent out Barnabas to go as far as Antioch,

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    20He said, "The Jews have agreed to ask you to bring Paul down to the council tomorrow, as though intending to inquire somewhat more accurately concerning him.

    21Therefore don't yield to them, for more than forty men lie in wait for him, who have bound themselves under a curse neither to eat nor to drink until they have killed him. Now they are ready, looking for the promise from you."

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    24Because we have heard that some who went out from us have troubled you with words, unsettling your souls, saying, 'You must be circumcised and keep the law,' to whom we gave no commandment;

    25it seemed good to us, having come to one accord, to choose out men and send them to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,

  • 10When he had seen the vision, immediately we sought to go out to Macedonia, concluding that the Lord had called us to preach the Good News to them.

  • 2When he had gone through those parts, and had encouraged them with many words, he came into Greece.

  • 36After some days Paul said to Barnabas, "Let's return now and visit our brothers in every city in which we proclaimed the word of the Lord, to see how they are doing."

  • 36for the multitude of the people followed after, crying out, "Away with him!"

  • 12When it was day, some of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.

  • 4begging us with much entreaty to receive this grace and the fellowship in the service to the saints.

  • 19"Therefore my judgment is that we don't trouble those from among the Gentiles who turn to God,

  • 21For this reason the Jews seized me in the temple, and tried to kill me.

  • 33"Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem. The Son of Man will be delivered to the chief priests and the scribes. They will condemn him to death, and will deliver him to the Gentiles.

  • 2Therefore when Paul and Barnabas had no small discord and discussion with them, they appointed Paul and Barnabas, and some others of them, to go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and elders about this question.

  • 3Paul wanted to have him go out with him, and he took and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those parts; for they all knew that his father was a Greek.

  • 17As Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, he took the twelve disciples aside, and on the way he said to them,