On to Jerusalem
1After we had torn ourselves away from them, we put out to sea and sailed straight to Kos. The next day we went to Rhodes and from there to Patara. 2We found a ship crossing over to Phoenicia, went on board and set sail. 3After sighting Cyprus and passing to the south of it, we sailed on to Syria. We landed at Tyre, where our ship was to unload its cargo. 4We sought out the disciples there and stayed with them seven days. Through the Spirit they urged Paul not to go on to Jerusalem. 5When it was time to leave, we left and continued on our way. All of them, including wives and children, accompanied us out of the city, and there on the beach we knelt to pray. 6After saying goodbye to each other, we went aboard the ship, and they returned home.
7We continued our voyage from Tyre and landed at Ptolemais, where we greeted the brothers and sisters and stayed with them for a day. 8Leaving the next day, we reached Caesarea and stayed at the house of Philip the evangelist, one of the Seven. 9He had four unmarried daughters who prophesied.
10After we had been there a number of days, a prophet named Agabus came down from Judea. 11Coming over to us, he took Paul’s belt, tied his own hands and feet with it and said, “The Holy Spirit says, ‘In this way the Jewish leaders in Jerusalem will bind the owner of this belt and will hand him over to the Gentiles.’ ”
12When we heard this, we and the people there pleaded with Paul not to go up to Jerusalem. 13Then Paul answered, “Why are you weeping and breaking my heart? I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die in Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.” 14When he would not be dissuaded, we gave up and said, “The Lord’s will be done.”
15After this, we started on our way up to Jerusalem. 16Some of the disciples from Caesarea accompanied us and brought us to the home of Mnason, where we were to stay. He was a man from Cyprus and one of the early disciples.
Paul’s Arrival at Jerusalem
17When we arrived at Jerusalem, the brothers and sisters received us warmly. 18The next day Paul and the rest of us went to see James, and all the elders were present. 19Paul greeted them and reported in detail what God had done among the Gentiles through his ministry.
20When they heard this, they praised God. Then they said to Paul: “You see, brother, how many thousands of Jews have believed, and all of them are zealous for the law. 21They have been informed that you teach all the Jews who live among the Gentiles to turn away from Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children or live according to our customs. 22What shall we do? They will certainly hear that you have come, 23so do what we tell you. There are four men with us who have made a vow. 24Take these men, join in their purification rites and pay their expenses, so that they can have their heads shaved. Then everyone will know there is no truth in these reports about you, but that you yourself are living in obedience to the law. 25As for the Gentile believers, we have written to them our decision that they should abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals and from sexual immorality.”
26The next day Paul took the men and purified himself along with them. Then he went to the temple to give notice of the date when the days of purification would end and the offering would be made for each of them.
Paul Arrested
27When the seven days were nearly over, some Jews from the province of Asia saw Paul at the temple. They stirred up the whole crowd and seized him, 28shouting, “Fellow Israelites, help us! This is the man who teaches everyone everywhere against our people and our law and this place. And besides, he has brought Greeks into the temple and defiled this holy place.” 29(They had previously seen Trophimus the Ephesian in the city with Paul and assumed that Paul had brought him into the temple.)
30The whole city was aroused, and the people came running from all directions. Seizing Paul, they dragged him from the temple, and immediately the gates were shut. 31While they were trying to kill him, news reached the commander of the Roman troops that the whole city of Jerusalem was in an uproar. 32He at once took some officers and soldiers and ran down to the crowd. When the rioters saw the commander and his soldiers, they stopped beating Paul.
33The commander came up and arrested him and ordered him to be bound with two chains. Then he asked who he was and what he had done. 34Some in the crowd shouted one thing and some another, and since the commander could not get at the truth because of the uproar, he ordered that Paul be taken into the barracks. 35When Paul reached the steps, the violence of the mob was so great he had to be carried by the soldiers. 36The crowd that followed kept shouting, “Get rid of him!”
Paul Speaks to the Crowd
37As the soldiers were about to take Paul into the barracks, he asked the commander, “May I say something to you?”
“Do you speak Greek?” he replied. 38“Aren’t you the Egyptian who started a revolt and led four thousand terrorists out into the wilderness some time ago?”
39Paul answered, “I am a Jew, from Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no ordinary city. Please let me speak to the people.”
40After receiving the commander’s permission, Paul stood on the steps and motioned to the crowd. When they were all silent, he said to them in Aramaic21:40 Or possibly Hebrew; also in 22:2:
保羅前往耶路撒冷
1我們和眾人道別之後，乘船直接駛往哥士，第二天到達羅底，從那裡前往帕大喇， 2在帕大喇遇到一艘開往腓尼基的船，就上了船。 3塞浦路斯遙遙在望，船從該島的南面繞過，一直駛向敘利亞。因為船要在泰爾卸貨，我們就在那裡上了岸， 4找到當地的門徒後，便和他們同住了七天。他們受聖靈的感動力勸保羅不要去耶路撒冷。 5時間到了，我們繼續前行，眾門徒和他們的妻子兒女送我們出城。大家跪在岸邊禱告之後，彼此道別。 6我們上了船，眾人也回家去了。
7我們從泰爾乘船抵達多利買，上岸問候那裡的弟兄姊妹，和他們住了一天。 8第二天我們離開那裡，來到凱撒利亞，住在傳道人腓利家裡。他是當初選出的七位執事之一。 9腓利有四個未出嫁的女兒，都能說預言。 10過了幾天，一個名叫亞迦布的先知從猶太下來。 11他到了我們這裡，拿保羅的腰帶綁住自己的手腳，說：「聖靈說，『耶路撒冷的猶太人也要這樣捆綁這腰帶的主人，把他交給外族人。』」
12聽到這話，我們和當地的信徒都苦勸保羅不要去耶路撒冷。 13但保羅說：「你們為什麼這樣哭泣，讓我心碎呢？我為主耶穌的名甘願受捆綁，甚至死在耶路撒冷。」
14我們知道再勸也無濟於事，便不再說什麼，只說：「願主的旨意成就。」
15過了幾天，我們準備妥當，啟程上耶路撒冷。 16有幾個凱撒利亞的門徒和我們一起去，並帶我們到一個信主已久的塞浦路斯人拿孫家裡住宿。
保羅會見雅各和眾長老
17我們抵達耶路撒冷後，受到弟兄姊妹的熱烈歡迎。 18第二天，保羅和我們去見雅各，眾長老都在那裡。 19保羅向大家問安之後，便一一述說上帝藉著他的服侍在外族人中所成就的事。 20大家聽了，都同聲讚美上帝，又對保羅說：「弟兄，你知道數以萬計的猶太人信了主，他們都熱衷於律法。 21他們聽見有人說你教導所有住在外族人中的猶太人背棄摩西的律法，不給孩子行割禮，也不遵守猶太人的規矩。 22他們一定會聽到你來這裡的消息，這該怎麼辦？ 23請你聽我們的建議，這裡有四位向上帝許過願的弟兄， 24你和他們一起去行潔淨禮，並由你替他們付費，讓他們可以剃頭，好叫眾人知道你嚴守律法，循規蹈矩，關於你的傳聞都是假的。 25至於那些外族信徒，我們已經寫信吩咐他們，不可吃祭過偶像的食物，不可吃血和勒死的牲畜，不可淫亂。」
保羅被捕
26於是，保羅和四位弟兄第二天行了潔淨禮，然後上聖殿報告他們潔淨期滿的日子，屆時好讓祭司為他們每個人獻祭物。 27當七日的潔淨期將滿的時候，有些從亞細亞來的猶太人發現保羅在聖殿裡，就煽動眾人並抓住他， 28同時高喊：「以色列人快來幫忙！就是這人到處教唆人反對我們的民族、律法和聖殿。他還帶希臘人進聖殿，玷污這聖地。」 29這是因為他們在城裡見過一個名叫特羅非摩的以弗所人和保羅在一起，以為保羅一定把他帶進聖殿了。
30這時，全城轟動。眾人一擁而上抓住保羅，把他拖出聖殿，隨即關上殿門。 31正當他們要殺保羅的時候，有人把耶路撒冷發生騷亂的消息報告給羅馬軍營的千夫長， 32千夫長馬上帶著軍兵和幾個百夫長趕來了。眾人一見千夫長和軍隊，便停止毆打保羅。 33千夫長上前拿住保羅，命人用兩條鐵鏈把他鎖起來，問他是什麼人、做了什麼事。 34人群中有人這樣喊，有人那樣喊，千夫長無法瞭解真相，便命人將保羅帶回軍營。 35保羅剛走上臺階，眾人便兇猛地擁擠過來，士兵們只好把他舉起來抬著走。 36眾人跟在後面高喊：「殺掉他！」
保羅的申辯
37士兵們抬著保羅要進軍營的時候，保羅問千夫長：「我可以和你講幾句話嗎？」千夫長說：「你也懂希臘話嗎？ 38不久前煽動叛亂、帶著四千暴徒逃到曠野去的那個埃及人是你嗎？」 39保羅說：「我是猶太人，來自基利迦的大數，並非無名小城的人。求你讓我跟百姓講話。」 40千夫長答應了，保羅就站在臺階上向眾人揮手示意，他們都安靜下來，保羅用希伯來話對他們說：
