Acts 21

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Paul, Luke, and company travel around for a little while longer and eventually find a ship that stops at Tyre. When they arrive, they search for the disciples there, and when they find them, they stay and listen to what they have to say. The disciples in Tyre tell Paul not to travel to Jerusalem because the Holy Spirit speaks through them. Once Paul leaves, his company goes with him, and the disciples in Tyre with their entire families even go to see him off.

Pauls travels lead him to Caesarea. The group stays with a disciple there who has four daughters who speak from God. It is important to listen to other believers because it is entirely possible that it is actually the Holy Spirit speaking through them. Another believer ties Paul up with his own belt and warns him that this same thing will happen if Paul goes to Jerusalem. When Paul's disciples hear about this, they try to persuade him not to go to Jerusalem, but Paul asks them why they act so cowardly. After they discover they cannot possibly persuade him, they see that it is really the will of God that sends them to be captured and most likely martyred in Jerusalem.

Paul's journey into Jerusalem is quite smooth. When he arrives, he meets up with James and the others. They tell him that they are afraid for his life. a rumor started in Jerusalem that Paul told Jews to turn away from Moses's Teachings. This made the Jewish officials so angry that they plan to kill Paul. The believers in Jerusalem tell him he should take some men and go through the purification process with them to show the Jews that he indeed follows Moses's teachings. Paul follows through and almost a week passes. After that week, people discover Paul is in Jerusalem, and a riot breaks out. The crowd grabs Paul and takes him to the court. The mob begins accusing him of all sorts of preposterous notions about making the Jewish temples unclean. A Roman soldier hears the mob and goes to discover what the problem is. Some of the crowd says one thing and others say something completely different. The soldiers become so confused that they decide to take Paul to the Roman court and have to carry him above the mob.

Paul stops the lead soldier and asks if he can speak to the Jews in the crowd. The guard is confused about who Paul is and asks him if he is the Egyptian who started a terrorist movement a while back. Paul answers that he is actually Jewish, so the guard lets him speak. Paul quiets the crowd and speaks.