I am here now on my way to Jerusalem, for the Spirit compels me to go there, though I do not know what will happen to me there,

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.

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!' "

When we heard this, we and the people there all begged him not to go up to Jerusalem.

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."

After this we made our preparations and started for Jerusalem.

When we reached Jerusalem, the brothers there gave us a hearty welcome.

They were trying to kill him when the news reached the colonel of the regiment that all Jerusalem was in a tumult.

as the high priest and the whole council will bear me witness. In fact, they gave me letters to the brothers in Damascus and I went there to bind those who were there and bring them back to Jerusalem to be punished.

After I had returned to Jerusalem, one day when I was praying in the Temple, I fell into a trance,

and saw him saying to me, 'Make haste and leave Jerusalem at once, for they will not accept your evidence about me.'

On the following night the Lord stood beside him and said, "Courage! For just as you have testified for me in Jerusalem, you must testify in Rome also."

for it is not more than twelve days ago, as you can easily satisfy yourself, that I went up to worship at Jerusalem,

Three days after his arrival in the province, Festus went up from Caesarea to Jerusalem,

and begged him as a favor to order Paul to come to Jerusalem, plotting to kill him on the way.

When he came, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem surrounded him, and made a number of serious charges against him, which they could not substantiate.

Then Festus, wishing to gratify the Jews, said to Paul, "Will you go up to Jerusalem and be tried there before me on these charges?"

and when I was at Jerusalem the Jewish high priests and elders presented their case against him, and asked for his conviction.

I was at a loss as to how to investigate such matters, and I asked him if he would like to go to Jerusalem and be tried on these charges there.

Then Festus said, "King Agrippa and all who are present, you see here the man about whom the whole Jewish people have applied to me both at Jerusalem and here, clamoring that he ought not to live any longer.

The way I lived from my youth up, spending my early life among my own nation and at Jerusalem, is well known to all Jews,

That was what I did at Jerusalem when on the authority of the high priests I put many of God's people in prison. When they were put to death, I cast my vote against them,

but first to the people of Damascus and Jerusalem and then all over Judea, and even to the heathen I preached that they must repent and turn to God and live as men who have repented should.

Three days later, he invited the leading Jews to come to see him, and when they came he said to them, "Brothers, I have done nothing against our people, or the customs of our forefathers, yet I was turned over to the Romans as a prisoner at Jerusalem.

by the force of signs and marvels, and by the power of the holy Spirit, with the result that I have completed the preaching of the good news of Christ all the way from Jerusalem around to Illyricum.

Just now I am starting for Jerusalem, to take help to God's people.

For Macedonia and Greece have determined to make a contribution for the poor among God's people in Jerusalem.

Pray that I may escape from those in Judea who are disobedient, and that the help I am taking to Jerusalem may be well received by God's people,

When I come I will send whatever persons you authorize with credentials, to carry your gift to Jerusalem.

or going up to Jerusalem to see those who had been apostles before me, I went off to Arabia, and on my return came back to Damascus.

Then three years later I went up to Jerusalem, to become acquainted with Cephas, and I spent two weeks with him;

Then, fourteen years later, I went up to Jerusalem again, with Barnabas, and took Titus also with me.

(and Hagar means Mount Sinai, in Arabia), and corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for Jerusalem is in slavery with her children.

But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother.

But you have come up to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to countless angels,

I will make him who is victorious a pillar in the temple of my God; he shall never go out of it again. I will write on him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God??he new Jerusalem, which is to come down out of heaven from my God??nd my new name.

And I saw the new Jerusalem, the holy city, come down out of heaven from God, like a bride dressed and ready to meet her husband.

He carried me away in a trance to a great, high mountain, and showed me Jerusalem, the holy city, coming down out of heaven from God,