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Acts 21:8-20 English Standard Version (ESV)

8. On the next day we departed and came to Caesarea, and we entered the house of Philip the evangelist, who was one of the seven, and stayed with him.

9. He had four unmarried daughters, who prophesied.

10. While we were staying for many days, a prophet named Agabus came down from Judea.

11. And coming to us, he took Paul’s belt and bound his own feet and hands and said, “Thus says the Holy Spirit, ‘This is how the Jews at Jerusalem will bind the man who owns this belt and deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.’”

12. When we heard this, we and the people there urged him not to go up to Jerusalem.

13. Then Paul answered, “What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be imprisoned but even to die in Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.”

14. And since he would not be persuaded, we ceased and said, “Let the will of the Lord be done.”

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

16. And some of the disciples from Caesarea went with us, bringing us to the house of Mnason of Cyprus, an early disciple, with whom we should lodge.

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

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

19. After greeting them, he related one by one the things that God had done among the Gentiles through his ministry.

20. And when they heard it, they glorified God. And they said to him, “You see, brother, how many thousands there are among the Jews of those who have believed. They are all zealous for the law,