'Customs' in the Bible
For we heard him say that Jesus, this Nazarene, will destroy this place and change the customs that Moses handed down to us.”
and are promoting customs that are not legal for us as Romans to adopt or practice.”
But they have been told about you that you teach all the Jews who are among the Gentiles to abandon Moses, by telling them not to circumcise their children or to walk in our customs.
especially since you are an expert in all the Jewish customs and controversies. Therefore I beg you to listen to me patiently.
After three days he called together the leaders of the Jews. When they had gathered he said to them: “Brothers, although I have done nothing against our people or the customs of our ancestors, I was delivered as a prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans.