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You yourselves know. For such things as were needful for me and them that are with me, these hands have furnished.

Being grieved most of all for the word which he had said, that they should see his face no more. And they brought him on his way to the ship.

And when we had discovered Cyprus, leaving it on the left hand, we sailed into Syria, and came to Tyre: for there the ship was to unlade her burden.

And as we tarried there for some days, there came from Judea a certain prophet, named Agabus.

Then Paul answered and said: What do you mean, weeping and afflicting my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but to die also in Jerusalem, for the name of the Lord Jesus.

But they hearing it, glorified God and said to him: Thou seest, brother, how many thousands there are among the Jews that have believed: and they are all zealous for the law.

What is it therefore? The multitude must needs come together: for they will hear that thou art come.

Then Paul took the men and, the next day being purified with them, entered into the temple, giving notice of the accomplishment of the days of purification, until an oblation should be offered for every one of them.

(For they had seen Trophimus the Ephesian in the city with him. whom they supposed that Paul had brought into the temple.)

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.

For the multitude of the people followed after, crying: Away with him!

And he saith: I am a Jew, born at Tarsus in Cilicia, but brought up in this city, at the feet of Gamaliel, taught according to the truth of the law of the fathers, zealous for the law, as also all you are this day:

And whereas I did not see for the brightness of that light, being led by the hand by my companions, I came to Damascus,

For thou shalt be his witness to all men of those things which thou hast seen and heard.

And he said to me: Go, for unto the Gentiles afar off will I send thee.

And they heard him until this word and then lifted up their voice, saying: Away with such an one from the earth. For it is not fit that he should live.

The tribune commanded him to be brought into the castle, and that he should be scourged and tortured: to know for what cause they did so cry out against him.

And when they had bound him with thongs, Paul saith to the centurion that stood by him: Is it lawful for you to scourge a man that is a Roman and uncondemned?

Which the centurion hearing, went to the tribune and told him, saying: What art thou about to do? For this man is a Roman citizen.

But on the next day, meaning to know more diligently for what cause he was accused by the Jews, he loosed him and commanded the priests to come together and all the council: and, bringing forth Paul, he set him before them.