From: ngninja@baptist.email   
      
   Bible Reading for November 21   
      
   Acts Chapter 21   
      
   1 And it came to pass, that after we were gotten from them, and had   
   launched, we came with a straight course unto Coos, and the day   
   following unto Rhodes, and from thence unto Patara:   
      
   2 And finding a ship sailing over unto Phenicia, we went aboard, and set   
   forth.   
      
   3 Now when we had discovered Cyprus, we left it on the left hand, and   
   sailed into Syria, and landed at Tyre: for there the ship was to unlade   
   her burden.   
      
   4 And finding disciples, we tarried there seven days: who said to Paul   
   through the Spirit, that he should not go up to Jerusalem.   
      
   5 And when we had accomplished those days, we departed and went our way;   
   and they all brought us on our way, with wives and children, till we   
   were out of the city: and we kneeled down on the shore, and prayed.   
      
   6 And when we had taken our leave one of another, we took ship; and they   
   returned home again.   
      
   7 And when we had finished our course from Tyre, we came to Ptolemais,   
   and saluted the brethren, and abode with them one day.   
      
   8 And the next day we that were of Paul's company departed, and came   
   unto Caesarea: and we entered into the house of Philip the evangelist,   
   which was one of the seven; and abode with him.   
      
   9 And the same man had four daughters, virgins, which did prophesy.   
      
   10 And as we tarried there many days, there came down from Judaea a   
   certain prophet, named Agabus.   
      
   11 And when he was come unto us, he took Paul's girdle, and bound his   
   own hands and feet, and said, Thus saith the Holy Ghost, So shall the   
   Jews at Jerusalem bind the man that owneth this girdle, and shall   
   deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.   
      
   12 And when we heard these things, both we, and they of that place,   
   besought him not to go up to Jerusalem.   
      
   13 Then Paul answered, What mean ye to weep and to break mine heart? for   
   I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the   
   name of the Lord Jesus.   
      
   14 And when he would not be persuaded, we ceased, saying, The will of   
   the Lord be done.   
      
   15 And after those days we took up our carriages, and went up to Jerusalem.   
      
   16 There went with us also certain of the disciples of Caesarea, and   
   brought with them one Mnason of Cyprus, an old disciple, with whom we   
   should lodge.   
      
   17 And when we were come to Jerusalem, the brethren received us gladly.   
      
   18 And the day following Paul went in with us unto James; and all the   
   elders were present.   
      
   19 And when he had saluted them, he declared particularly what things   
   God had wrought among the Gentiles by his ministry.   
      
   20 And when they heard it, they glorified the Lord, and said unto him,   
   Thou seest, brother, how many thousands of Jews there are which believe;   
   and they are all zealous of the law:   
      
   21 And they are informed of thee, that thou teachest all the Jews which   
   are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, saying that they ought not to   
   circumcise their children, neither to walk after the customs.   
      
   22 What is it therefore? the multitude must needs come together: for   
   they will hear that thou art come.   
      
   23 Do therefore this that we say to thee: We have four men which have a   
   vow on them;   
      
   24 Them take, and purify thyself with them, and be at charges with them,   
   that they may shave their heads: and all may know that those things,   
   whereof they were informed concerning thee, are nothing; but that thou   
   thyself also walkest orderly, and keepest the law.   
      
   25 As touching the Gentiles which believe, we have written and concluded   
   that they observe no such thing, save only that they keep themselves   
   from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from strangled, and   
   from fornication.   
      
   26 Then Paul took the men, and the next day purifying himself with them   
   entered into the temple, to signify the accomplishment of the days of   
   purification, until that an offering should be offered for every one of   
   them.   
      
   27 And when the seven days were almost ended, the Jews which were of   
   Asia, when they saw him in the temple, stirred up all the people, and   
   laid hands on him,   
      
   28 Crying out, Men of Israel, help: This is the man, that teacheth all   
   men every where against the people, and the law, and this place: and   
   further brought Greeks also into the temple, and hath polluted this holy   
   place.   
      
   29 (For they had seen before with him in the city Trophimus an Ephesian,   
   whom they supposed that Paul had brought into the temple.)   
      
   30 And all the city was moved, and the people ran together: and they   
   took Paul, and drew him out of the temple: and forthwith the doors were   
   shut.   
      
   31 And as they went about to kill him, tidings came unto the chief   
   captain of the band, that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.   
      
   32 Who immediately took soldiers and centurions, and ran down unto them:   
   and when they saw the chief captain and the soldiers, they left beating   
   of Paul.   
      
   33 Then the chief captain came near, and took him, and commanded him to   
   be bound with two chains; and demanded who he was, and what he had done.   
      
   34 And some cried one thing, some another, among the multitude: and when   
   he could not know the certainty for the tumult, he commanded him to be   
   carried into the castle.   
      
   35 And when he came upon the stairs, so it was, that he was borne of the   
   soldiers for the violence of the people.   
      
   36 For the multitude of the people followed after, crying, Away with him.   
      
   37 And as Paul was to be led into the castle, he said unto the chief   
   captain, May I speak unto thee? Who said, Canst thou speak Greek?   
      
   38 Art not thou that Egyptian, which before these days madest an uproar,   
   and leddest out into the wilderness four thousand men that were murderers?   
      
   39 But Paul said, I am a man which am a Jew of Tarsus, a city in   
   Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city: and, I beseech thee, suffer me to   
   speak unto the people.   
      
   40 And when he had given him licence, Paul stood on the stairs, and   
   beckoned with the hand unto the people. And when there was made a great   
   silence, he spake unto them in the Hebrew tongue, saying,   
      
   Acts Chapter 22   
      
   1 Men, brethren, and fathers, hear ye my defence which I make now unto you.   
      
   2 (And when they heard that he spake in the Hebrew tongue to them, they   
   kept the more silence: and he saith,)   
      
   3 I am verily a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia,   
   yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught   
   according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and was   
   zealous toward God, as ye all are this day.   
      
   4 And I persecuted this way unto the death, binding and delivering into   
   prisons both men and women.   
      
   5 As also the high priest doth bear me witness, and all the estate of   
   the elders: from whom also I received letters unto the brethren, and   
   went to Damascus, to bring them which were there bound unto Jerusalem,   
   for to be punished.   
      
   6 And it came to pass, that, as I made my journey, and was come nigh   
   unto Damascus about noon, suddenly there shone from heaven a great light   
      
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