Acts 21:15-25 - Conflict Over The Gentile Mission

¹⁵ And after these days, having got our effects ready, we went up to Jerusalem. ¹⁶ And some of the disciples from Caesarea went with us, bringing with them a certain Mnason, a Cyprian, an old disciple, with whom we were to lodge.

¹⁷ And when we arrived at Jerusalem the brethren gladly received us. ¹⁸ And on the morrow Paul went in with us to James, and all the elders came there. ¹⁹ And having saluted them, he related one by one the things which God had wrought among the nations by his ministry.

²⁰ And they having heard it glorified God, and said to him, Thou seest, brother, how many myriads there are of the Jews who have believed, and all are zealous of the law. ²¹ And they have been informed concerning thee, that thou teachest all the Jews among the nations apostasy from Moses, saying that they should not circumcise their children, nor walk in the customs. ²² What is it then? a multitude must necessarily come together, for they will hear that thou art come. ²³ This do therefore that we say to thee: We have four men who have a vow on them; ²⁴ take these and be purified with them, and pay their expenses, that they may have their heads shaved; and all will know that of those things of which they have been informed about thee nothing is true; but that thou thyself also walkest orderly, keeping the law. ²⁵ But concerning those of the nations who have believed, we have written, deciding that they should observe no such thing, only to keep themselves both from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication.