1. After we had torn ourselves away from the Ephesian elders, we set sail and made a straight run to Cos. The next day we went to Rhodes, and from there to Patara.

2. On finding a ship that was crossing over to Phoenicia, we embarked and set sail.

3. After sighting Cyprus, we passed it on the left, sailed to Syria and landed at Tzor, because that was where the ship was unloading its cargo.

4. Having searched out the [talmidim] there, we remained for a week. Guided by the Spirit, they told Sha'ul not to go up to Yerushalayim;

5. but when the week was over, we left to continue our journey. All of them, with their wives and children, accompanied us until we were outside the town. Kneeling on the beach and praying,

6. we said good-bye to each other. Then we boarded the ship, and they returned home.

7. When the voyage from Tzor was over, we arrived at Ptolemais. There we greeted the brothers and stayed with them overnight.

8. The following day, we left and came to Caesarea, where we went to the home of Philip the proclaimer of the Good News, one of the Seven, and stayed with him.

9. He had four unmarried daughters with the gift of prophecy.

10. While we were staying there, a prophet named Agav came down from Y'hudah

11. to visit us. He took Sha'ul's belt, tied up his own hands and feet and said, "Here is what the [Ruach HaKodesh] says: the man who owns this belt- the Judeans in Yerushalayim will tie him up just like this and hand him over to the [Goyim]."

12. When we heard this, both we and the people there begged him not to go up to Yerushalayim;

13. but Sha'ul answered, "What are you doing, crying and trying to weaken my resolve? I am prepared not only to be tied up, but even to die in Yerushalayim for the name of the Lord Yeshua."

14. And when he would not be convinced, we said, "May the Lord's will be done," and kept quiet.

15. So at the end of our stay, we packed and went up to Yerushalayim;

16. and with us went some of the [talmidim] from Caesarea. They brought us to the home of the man with whom we were to stay, Mnason from Cyprus, who had been a [talmid] since the early days.

17. In Yerushalayim, the brothers received us warmly.

18. The next day Sha'ul and the rest of us went in to Ya'akov, and all the elders were present.

19. After greeting them, Sha'ul described in detail each of the things God had done among the Gentiles through his efforts.

20. On hearing it, they praised God; but they also said to him, "You see, brother, how many tens of thousands of believers there are among the Judeans, and they are all zealots for the [Torah].

21. Now what they have been told about you is that you are teaching all the Jews living among the [Goyim] to apostatize from Moshe, telling them not to have a [b'rit-milah] for their sons and not to follow the traditions.

22. "What, then, is to be done? They will certainly hear that you have come.

23. So do what we tell you. We have four men who are under a vow.

24. Take them with you, be purified with them, and pay the expenses connected with having their heads shaved. Then everyone will know that there is nothing to these rumors which they have heard about you; but that, on the contrary, you yourself stay in line and keep the [Torah].

25. "However, in regard to the [Goyim] who have come to trust in Yeshua, we all joined in writing them a letter with our decision that they should abstain from what had been sacrificed to idols, from blood, from what is strangled and from fornication."

26. The next day Sha'ul took the men, purified himself along with them and entered the Temple to give notice of when the period of purification would be finished and the offering would have to be made for each of them.

27. The seven days were almost up when some unbelieving Jews from the province of Asia saw him in the Temple, stirred up all the crowd and grabbed him.