Acts 21

Question 1

Acts 21:1

Answer 1

After we had torn ourselves away from them, we put out to sea and sailed straight to Cos. The next day we went to Rhodes and from there to Patara.

Question 2

Acts 21:2

Answer 2

We found a ship crossing over to Phoenicia, went on board and set sail.

Question 3

Acts 21:3

Answer 3

After sighting Cyprus and passing to the south of it, we sailed on to Syria. We landed at Tyre, where our ship was to unload its cargo.

Question 4

Acts 21:4

Answer 4

Finding the disciples there, we stayed with them seven days. Through the Spirit they urged Paul not to go on to Jerusalem.

Question 5

Acts 21:5

Answer 5

But when our time was up, we left and continued on our way. All the disciples and their wives and children accompanied us out of the city, and there on the beach we knelt to pray.

Question 6

Acts 21:6

Answer 6

After saying good-by to each other, we went aboard the ship, and they returned home.

Question 7

Acts 21:7

Answer 7

We continued our voyage from Tyre and landed at Ptolemais, where we greeted the brothers and stayed with them for a day.

Question 8

Acts 21:8

Answer 8

Leaving the next day, we reached Caesarea and stayed at the house of Philip the evangelist, one of the Seven.

Question 9

Acts 21:9

Answer 9

He had four unmarried daughters who prophesied.

Question 10

Acts 21:10

Answer 10

After we had been there a number of days, a prophet named Agabus came down from Judea.

Question 11

Acts 21:11

Answer 11

Coming over to us, he took Paul’s belt, tied his own hands and feet with it and said, “The Holy Spirit says, ‘In this way the Jews of Jerusalem will bind the owner of this belt and will hand him over to the Gentiles.’ “

Question 12

Acts 21:12

Answer 12

When we heard this, we and the people there pleaded with Paul not to go up to Jerusalem.

Question 13

Acts 21:13

Answer 13

Then Paul answered, “Why are you weeping and breaking my heart? I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die in Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.”

Question 14

Acts 21:14

Answer 14

When he would not be dissuaded, we gave up and said, “The Lord’s will be done.”

Question 15

Acts 21:15

Answer 15

After this, we got ready and went up to Jerusalem.

Question 16

Acts 21:16

Answer 16

Some of the disciples from Caesarea accompanied us and brought us to the home of Mnason, where we were to stay. He was a man from Cyprus and one of the early disciples.

Question 17

Acts 21:17

Answer 17

When we arrived at Jerusalem, the brothers received us warmly.

Question 18

Acts 21:18

Answer 18

The next day Paul and the rest of us went to see James, and all the elders were present.

Question 19

Acts 21:19

Answer 19

Paul greeted them and reported in detail what God had done among the Gentiles through his ministry.

Question 20

Acts 21:20

Answer 20

When they heard this, they praised God. Then they said to Paul: “You see, brother, how many thousands of Jews have believed, and all of them are zealous for the law.

Question 21

Acts 21:21

Answer 21

They have been informed that you teach all the Jews who live among the Gentiles to turn away from Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children or live according to our customs.

Question 22

Acts 21:22

Answer 22

What shall we do? They will certainly hear that you have come,

Question 23

Acts 21:23

Answer 23

so do what we tell you. There are four men with us who have made a vow.

Question 24

Acts 21:24

Answer 24

Take these men, join in their purification rites and pay their expenses, so that they can have their heads shaved. Then everybody will know there is no truth in these reports about you, but that you yourself are living in obedience to the law.

Question 25

Acts 21:25

Answer 25

As for the Gentile believers, we have written to them our decision that they should abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals and from sexual immorality.”

Question 26

Acts 21:26

Answer 26

The next day Paul took the men and purified himself along with them. Then he went to the temple to give notice of the date when the days of purification would end and the offering would be made for each of them.

Question 27

Acts 21:27

Answer 27

When the seven days were nearly over, some Jews from the province of Asia saw Paul at the temple. They stirred up the whole crowd and seized him,

Question 28

Acts 21:28

Answer 28

shouting, “Men of Israel, help us! This is the man who teaches all men everywhere against our people and our law and this place. And besides, he has brought Greeks into the temple area and defiled this holy place.”

Question 29

Acts 21:29

Answer 29

(They had previously seen Trophimus the Ephesian in the city with Paul and assumed that Paul had brought him into the temple area.)

Question 30

Acts 21:30

Answer 30

The whole city was aroused, and the people came running from all directions. Seizing Paul, they dragged him from the temple, and immediately the gates were shut.

Question 31

Acts 21:31

Answer 31

While they were trying to kill him, news reached the commander of the Roman troops that the whole city of Jerusalem was in an uproar.

Question 32

Acts 21:32

Answer 32

He at once took some officers and soldiers and ran down to the crowd. When the rioters saw the commander and his soldiers, they stopped beating Paul.

Question 33

Acts 21:33

Answer 33

The commander came up and arrested him and ordered him to be bound with two chains. Then he asked who he was and what he had done.

Question 34

Acts 21:34

Answer 34

Some in the crowd shouted one thing and some another, and since the commander could not get at the truth because of the uproar, he ordered that Paul be taken into the barracks.

Question 35

Acts 21:35

Answer 35

When Paul reached the steps, the violence of the mob was so great he had to be carried by the soldiers.

Question 36

Acts 21:36

Answer 36

The crowd that followed kept shouting, “Away with him!”

Question 37

Acts 21:37

Answer 37

As the soldiers were about to take Paul into the barracks, he asked the commander, “May I say something to you?” “Do you speak Greek?” he replied.

Question 38

Acts 21:38

Answer 38

“Aren’t you the Egyptian who started a revolt and led four thousand terrorists out into the desert some time ago?”

Question 39

Acts 21:39

Answer 39

Paul answered, “I am a Jew, from Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no ordinary city. Please let me speak to the people.”

Question 40

Acts 21:40

Answer 40

Having received the commander’s permission, Paul stood on the steps and motioned to the crowd. When they were all silent, he said to them in Aramaic: