Now Paul stayed a considerable time longer in Corinth, and then bade the brothers goodbye and set sail for Syria, accompanied by Aquila and Priscilla. At Cenchreae he had his hair cut, for he was under a vow.

Are you not the Egyptian who sometime ago raised a mob of four thousand cut-throats and led them out into the desert?"

Then the soldiers cut the ropes that held the boat and let it drift away.