RESTORATION SCRIPTURES TRUE NAME EDITION Study Bible

and breaking my lev? For I am ready not only to be
bound, but also to die at Yahrushalayim for the Name of
the Master gauvh. 5364
14 And when he would not be persuaded, we ceased,
saying, The will of vuvh be done.
15 And after those days we prepared, and went up to
Yahrushalayim.
16 There went with us also certain of the talmidim of
Caesarea, and brought with them Menason of Cyprus, an
old talmid, with whom we should lodge.
17 And when we had come to Yahrushalayim, the
Yisraelite brothers received us with simcha.
18 And the day following Shaul went in with us to
Yaakov; and all the zechanim were present.
19 And when he had greeted them, he declared
particularly what things vuvh had done among the nations
by his service.
20 And when they heard it, they gave tehilla to vuvh, and
said to him, You see, brother, how many tens of
thousands there are who believe among the Yahudim; 5365
and they are all zealous for the Torah:
21 And they are wrongly informed about you, that you
teach all the Yahudim who are among the nations to
forsake Moshe’s Torah, saying that they should not brit
milah their children, neither walk after the halacha of
Torah. 5366
22 What is this therefore? The multitudes will hear that
you have come.
23 So do what we tell you: We have four men who have a
Nazarite vow on them;
24 Take them, and cleanse yourself with them, and pay
their expenses, that they may shave their heads: and then
all will know that those things, of which they were
informed about you, are false and nothing; but that you
yourself also have your halacha orderly, guarding all of
the Torah. 5367
25 As touching the returning nations which believe, we
have written and concluded that they observe no such
thing, except only that they keep themselves from things
offered to idols, and from dahm, and from strangled
things, and from fornication. 5368
26 Then Shaul took the men, and the next day cleansed
himself with them and entered into the Beit HaMikdash,
to signify the completion of the days of their separation,
until the offering should be given for every one of them.
27 And when the seven days were almost ended, the
Yahudim who were from Asia Minor, when they saw him
in the Beit HaMikdash, stirred up all the people, and laid
hands on him,
28 Crying out, Men of Yisrael, help: This is the man, that
teaches all men everywhere against the people of Yisrael,
and the Torah, and this makom kadosh: and furthermore
he brought Greeks 5369 into the Beit HaMikdash, and has
polluted this makom kadosh.
29 For they had been seen before with him in the city
Trophimos the Ephesian, whom they supposed that Shaul
had brought into the Beit HaMikdash.
30 And all the city was moved, and the people ran
together: and they took Shaul, and dragged him out of the
Beit HaMikdash: and immediately shut the doors.
31 And as they went about to kill him, news came to the
chief captain of the company, that all Yahrushalayim was
in an uproar.
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32 He immediately took soldiers and centurions, and ran
down to them: and when they saw the chief captain and
the soldiers, they stopped beating Shaul.
33 Then the chief captain came near, and took him, and
commanded him to be bound with two chains; 5370 and
demanded to know who he was, and what he had done.
34 And some cried one thing, some another, among the
multitude: and when he could not know the real reason
for the tumult, he commanded him to be carried into the
headquarters.
35 And when he came to the stairs, so it was, that he had
to be carried by the soldiers because of the violence of the
people.
36 For the multitude of the unbelieving people followed
after him, shouting, Away with him.
37 And as Shaul was about to be led into the
headquarters, he said to the chief captain, May I speak to
you? The chief captain said, Can you speak Greek?
38 Are not you that Mitzri, who a while back made a
revolt, and led out into the wilderness four thousand men
that were assassins?
39 But Shaul said, No. I am a man, a Yahudi of Tarsus, a
city in Cilikia, a citizen of a well known city: and, I beg
you, allow me to speak to my people Yisrael.
40 And when he had given him permission, Shaul stood
on the stairs, and motioned with the hand to the people.
And when there was a great silence, he spoke to them in
the Ivrit tongue, saying,
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listen to my defense, which I make to you now.
2 And when they heard that he spoke in the Ivrit tongue,
they kept even quieter and he said,
3 I am indeed a man who am a Yahudi, born in Tarsus, a
city in Cilikia, yet brought up in this city at the yeshiva of
Gamliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of
the Torah of the ahvot, and was zealous towards tvkt,
as you all are this day.
4 And I persecuted the Way to the death, binding and
delivering into prisons both men and women.
5 As also the Kohen HaGadol does bear me witness, and
all the zechanim of the Sanhedrin: from whom also I
received letters to the Yisraelite brothers, and went to
Dameshek, to bring them who were there bound to
Yahrushalayim, to be punished.
6 And it came to pass, that, as I made my journey, and
had come near to Dameshek around noon, suddenly there
shone from the shamayim a great light all around me.
7 And I fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying to
me, Shaul, Shaul, why do you persecute Me?
8 And I answered, Who are You, Master? And He said to
me, I am gauvh of Natzeret, whom you persecute.
9 And they that were with me saw the light, and were
afraid; but they did not hear the voice of Him that spoke
to me.
10 And I said, What shall I do, Master? And gauvh said
to me, Arise, and go into Dameshek; and there it shall be
told you all things which are appointed for you to do.
11 And when I could not see for the tifereth of that light,
being led by the hand of those that were with me, I came
into Dameshek.
12 And one Chananyah, a devout man following the
Torah, having a tov report among all the Yahudim who
Men, Yisraelite brothers, and ahvot of Yisrael, 5371