Acts 21:1-16 - Paul Travels On To Jerusalem
1 When we had torn ourselves away from them, we struck a bee line for Cos, and the next day on to Rhodes, and from there to Patara. 2 There we found a ship bound for Phoenicia, and so we went aboard and sailed away. 3 After sighting Cyprus and leaving it on our left, we sailed on 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. Because of impressions made by the Spirit they kept on warning 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 accompanied us out of town. There we knelt down on the beach and prayed; 6 there we bade one another goodbye, and we went aboard the ship, while they went back.
7 On finishing the sail from Tyre we landed at Ptolemais. Here 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 evangelist, who was one of the Seven, and stayed with him. 9 He had four unmarried daughters who were prophetesses.
10 While we were spending some days here, a prophet named Agabus came down from Judea. 11 He came to see us and took Paul's belt and with it bound his own hands and feet, and said, "This is what the Holy Spirit says, 'The Jews at Jerusalem will bind the man who owns this belt like this, and then will turn him over to the heathen.'" 12 When we heard this, we and all the people there begged him not to go up to Jerusalem.
13 Then Paul answered, "What do you mean by crying and breaking my heart? Why, I am ready not only to be bound at Jerusalem but to die there for the sake of the Lord Jesus."
14 So, since he would not yield to our appeal, we stopped begging him, and said, "The Lord's will be done!"
15 After this we got ready and started up to 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.