1 We left our dear friends. We went on a boat to Cos, then Rhodes, then Patara. 2 We found a boat to Phoenicia. We got in and went. ⛵➡️ 3 We saw Cyprus on the left. We went to Syria and stopped at Tyre to unload the ship. ️️ 4 We found Jesus’ friends. We stayed 7 days. By God’s Holy Spirit, they told Paul, do not go to Jerusalem. ️ 5 We left. All the families walked with us to the beach. We knelt and prayed. ️ 6 We said bye. We went on the boat. They went home. 7 We came to Ptolemais. We said hi to the Jesus family and stayed one day. 8 Next day we went to Caesarea. We stayed with Philip, a good helper, one of the seven. 9 Philip had four girls. They were not married. They spoke God’s words. ️ 10 We stayed many days. A man came, Agabus. He was a prophet. ♂️ 11 Agabus took Paul’s belt. He tied his hands and feet. He said, God’s Holy Spirit says the man with this belt will be tied in Jerusalem and given to people who are not Jews. ⛓️️ 12 We heard this. We and the friends begged Paul, do not go to Jerusalem. 13 Paul said, Why do you cry? You hurt my heart. I am ready to be tied. I am ready to die in Jerusalem for Jesus. ✝️ 14 He would not change. We stopped. We said, Let the Lord’s plan be done. 15 After this, we got ready and went to Jerusalem. ♂️️ 16 Friends from Caesarea came too. They took us to Mnason from Cyprus, an early Jesus friend. We stayed with him. 17 We came to Jerusalem. The Jesus family was glad to see us. ❤️ 18 Next day Paul went with us to see James and the leaders. 19 Paul told them all God did with people who are not Jews, one by one. ✨️ 20 They heard and praised God. They said, Brother, many Jews now trust Jesus. They care a lot about the law. 21 They said, People say you teach Jews in other lands to leave Moses. They say you tell them, do not mark your boys, and do not keep our ways. ️⚠️ 22 What should we do? The people will hear you are here. 23 Do what we say. We have four men with a promise to God. ✋4️⃣ 24 Go with these men. Make yourself clean with them. Pay for them, so they can shave their heads. Then all will know the bad talk is not true. They will see you keep the law. 25 But people who are not Jews who trust Jesus must do this: do not eat food for idols, or blood, or meat from choked animals, and do not do wrong with their bodies. ❌ 26 Paul took the men. Next day he made himself clean with them. He went to the temple. He told when the days would end and gifts would be given for each man. 27 When the seven days were almost done, some Jews from Asia saw Paul in the temple. They made the crowd mad and grabbed him. ✋ 28 They yelled, Help! This man teaches against our people, our law, and this place. He even brought Greeks into the temple. He made this holy place dirty. 29 They had seen Trophimus from Ephesus with Paul in the city. They thought Paul brought him into the temple. ️ 30 All the city was upset. People ran. They grabbed Paul. They dragged him out. The gates shut. ♂️ 31 They tried to kill him. News went to the army boss that the city was in a mess. ️⚔️ 32 At once the boss took soldiers and ran down. The crowd saw them and stopped hitting Paul. ️♂️ 33 The boss took Paul and put two chains on him. He asked who he was and what he did. ⛓️❓ 34 People yelled many things. He could not learn the truth. He told the soldiers to take Paul to the army house. ️ 35 At the steps, the soldiers had to carry Paul because the crowd was wild. 36 The crowd followed and yelled, Away with him! 37 At the door of the army house, Paul said to the boss, May I talk to you? The boss said, Do you know Greek? ️ 38 The boss said, Are you the Egyptian who led many men to fight? 39 Paul said, I am a Jew from Tarsus in Cilicia, a big city. Please let me talk to the people. ️ 40 The boss let him. Paul stood on the steps and raised his hand. The people got quiet. He spoke to them in the Hebrew talk. ✋️