New English Translation

Acts 21:5-14 New English Translation (NET)

5. When our time was over, we left and went on our way. All of them, with their wives and children, accompanied us outside of the city. After kneeling down on the beach and praying,

6. we said farewell to one another. Then we went aboard the ship, and they returned to their own homes.

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

8. On the next day we left and came to Caesarea, and 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 remained there for a number of days, a prophet named Agabus came down from Judea.

11. He came to us, took Paul’s belt, tied his own hands and feet with it, and said, “The Holy Spirit says this: ‘This is the way the Jews in Jerusalem will tie up the man whose belt this is, and will hand him over to the Gentiles.’”

12. When we heard this, both we and the local people begged him not to go up to Jerusalem.

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

14. Because he could not be persuaded, we said no more except, “The Lord’s will be done.”