4. We found the Lord's followers and stayed with them for a week. The Holy Spirit had told them to warn Paul not to go on to Jerusalem.
5. But when the week was over, we started on our way again. All the men, together with their wives and children, walked with us from the town to the seashore. We knelt on the beach and prayed.
6. Then after saying goodbye to each other, we got into the ship, and they went back home.
7. We sailed from Tyre to Ptolemais, where we greeted the followers and stayed with them for a day.
8. The next day we went to Caesarea and stayed with Philip, the preacher. He was one of the seven men who helped the apostles,
9. and he had four unmarried daughters who prophesied.
10. We had been in Caesarea for several days, when the prophet Agabus came to us from Judea.
11. He took Paul's belt, and with it he tied up his own hands and feet. Then he told us, “The Holy Spirit says that some of the Jewish leaders in Jerusalem will tie up the man who owns this belt. They will also hand him over to the Gentiles.”
12. After Agabus said this, we and the followers living there begged Paul not to go to Jerusalem.
13. But Paul answered, “Why are you crying and breaking my heart? I am not only willing to be put in jail for the Lord Jesus. I am even willing to die for him in Jerusalem!”
14. Since we could not get Paul to change his mind, we gave up and prayed, “Lord, please make us willing to do what you want.”
15. Then we got ready to go to Jerusalem.
16. Some of the followers from Caesarea went with us and took us to stay in the home of Mnason. He was from Cyprus and had been a follower from the beginning.
17. When we arrived in Jerusalem, the Lord's followers gladly welcomed us.
18. Paul went with us to see James the next day, and all the church leaders were present.
19. Paul greeted them and told how God had used him to help the Gentiles.
20. Everyone who heard this praised God and said to Paul:My friend, you can see how many tens of thousands of the Jewish people have become followers! And all of them are eager to obey the Law of Moses.
21. But they have been told that you are teaching those who live among the Gentiles to disobey this Law. They claim that you are telling them not to circumcise their sons or to follow Jewish customs.
22. What should we do now that our people have heard that you are here?