g prepared, we went up to Jerusalem.

21:16. And there went also with us some of the disciples from Caesarea,
bringing with them one Mnason a Cyprian, an old disciple, with whom we
should lodge.

21:17. And when we were come to Jerusalem, the brethren received us
gladly.

21:18. And the day following, Paul went in with us unto James: and all
the ancients were assembled.

21:19. Whom when he had saluted, he related particularly what things God
had wrought among the Gentiles by his ministry.

21:20. But they hearing it, glorified God and said to him: Thou seest,
brother, how many thousands there are among the Jews that have believed:
and they are all zealous for the law.

21:21. Now they have heard of thee that thou teachest those Jews, who
are among the Gentiles to depart from Moses: saying that they ought not
to circumcise their children, nor walk according to the custom.

21:22. What is it therefore? The multitude must needs come together: for
they will hear that thou art come.

21:23. Do therefore this that we say to thee. We have four men, who have
a vow on them.

21:24. Take these and sanctify thyself with them: and bestow on them,
that they may shave their heads. And all will know that the things which
they have heard of these are false: but that thou thyself also walkest
keeping the law.

Keeping the law... The law, though now no longer obligatory, was for a
time observed by the Christian Jews: to bury, as it were, the synagogue
with honour.

21:25. But, as touching the Gentiles that believe, we have written,
decreeing that they should only refrain themselves from that which has
been offered to idols and from blood and from things strangled and from
fornication.

21:26. Then Paul took the men and, the next day being purified with
them, entered into the temple, giving notice of the accomplishment of
the days of purification, until an oblation should be offered for every
one of them.

21:27. But when the seven days were drawing to an end, those Jews that
were of Asia, when they saw him in the temple, stirred up all the people
and laid hands upon him, crying out:

21:28. Men of Israel, help: This is the man that teacheth all men every
where against the people and the law and this place; and moreover hath
brought in Gentiles into the temple and hath violated this holy place.

21:29. (For they had seen Trophimus the Ephesian in the city with him.
whom they supposed that Paul had brought into the tem