Acts 21:1-16 - Paul Travels On To Jerusalem
1 When the parting was over and we had sailed, we made a straight run to Cos and the next day to Rhodes and from there to Patara. 2 There we found a ship bound for Phoenicia, and we went on board and sailed on it. 3 After sighting Cyprus and leaving it on our left, we sailed for Syria, and put in at Tyre, for the ship was to unload her cargo there. 4 So we looked up the disciples there and stayed a week with them. Instructed by the Spirit, they warned Paul not to set foot in Jerusalem. 5 But when our time was up, we left there and went on, and all of them with their wives and children escorted us out of the town. There we knelt down on the beach and prayed; 6 then we bade one another goodbye, and we went on board the ship, and they went home.
7 After making the run from Tyre, we landed at Ptolemais, where we greeted the brothers and spent a day with them. 8 The next day we left there and went on to Caesarea, where we went to the house of Philip the missionary, who was one of the Seven, and stayed with him. 9 He had four unmarried daughters who had the gift of prophecy.
10 We spent a number of days there, and in the course of them a prophet named Agabus came down from Judea. 11 He came to see us and took Paul's belt and bound his own feet and hands with it, and said, "This is what the holy Spirit says: 'The Jews at Jerusalem will bind the man who owns this belt like this, and will hand him over to the heathen!' " 12 When we heard this, we and the people there all begged him not to go up to Jerusalem.
13 Then Paul answered, "What do you mean by crying and breaking my heart? I am ready not only to be bound at Jerusalem but to die there for the sake of the Lord Jesus."
14 So as he would not yield, we gave up urging him, and said, "The Lord's will be done!"
15 After this we made our preparations and started for Jerusalem. 16 Some of the disciples from Caesarea went with us and took us to the house of Mnason, a man from Cyprus, one of the early disciples, to spend the night.