Acts 21:20-27

20And when they heard it they began 1glorifying God; and they said to him, “You see, brother, how many 2thousands there are among the Jews of those who have believed, and they are all 3zealous for the Law; 21and they have been told about you, that you are 4teaching all the Jews who are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, telling them 5not to circumcise their children nor to 6walk according to 7the customs. 22What, then, is to be done? They will certainly hear that you have come. 23Therefore do this that we tell you. We have four men who 89are under a vow; 24take them and 10purify yourself along with them, and 11pay their expenses so that they may 12shave their 13heads; and all will know that there is nothing to the things which they have been told about you, but that you yourself also walk orderly, keeping the Law. 25But concerning the Gentiles who have believed, we wrote, 14having decided that they should abstain from 15meat sacrificed to idols and from blood and from what is strangled and from fornication.” 26Then Paul 16took the men, and the next day, 17purifying himself along with them, 18went into the temple giving notice of the completion of the days of purification, until the sacrifice was offered for each one of them.

27When 19the seven days were almost over, 20the Jews from 2122Asia, upon seeing him in the temple, began to stir up all the crowd and laid hands on him,