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Falls arrival at Jerusalem.

When we arrived at Jerusalem, the brothers received us warmly the next day, Paul, and the rest of us went to see James and all the others were present, Paul greeted them and reported in detail what God had done among the Gentiles through his ministry.

When I heard this, they praise God.

Then they said to Paul, you see brother, how many thousands of Jews have believed and all of them are zealous for the law.

They have been informed that you teach all of the Jews who live among the Gentiles to turn away from Moses, telling them, not to circumcise their children or live according to our customs.

What shall we do?

That will certainly hear that you have come.

So do what we tell you.

There are four men with us who have made a vow, take these men, joining their purification rites and pay their expenses, so that they can have their head, shaved.

Then everybody will know.

There is no truth in these reports about you, but that you yourself are living in obedience to the law.

As for the Gentile Believers, we have written to them, our decision that they should have stain from food sacrificed to Idols from blood, from the meat of strangled animals and from sexual immorality.

The next day, Paul, took them in and purified himself along with them.

Then he went to the temple to give notice of the date when the days of purification would end, and the offering would be made for each of them.

When the seven days were nearly over some juice from the province of Asia saw.

Paul, at the temple, they stared up the whole crowd and sees him shouting men of Israel.

Help us.

This is the man who teaches all men everywhere against our people and our law in this place.

And besides, he has brought Greeks into the temple area and defile this holy place, they had previously seen trophimus, the Ephesian in the city with Paul and assume that Paul had brought him into the temple area.

The whole city was aroused and the people came running from all directions, seizing Paul.

They dragged him from the temple and immediately the gates were shut while they were trying to kill him news, reach the commander of the Roman troops that the whole city of Jerusalem was in an uproar.

It wants to look some officers and soldiers and ran down to the crowd.

When the rider saw the commander and his soldiers.

They stopped beating Paul.

The commander came up and arrested him and ordered him to be bound with two chains.

Then he asked who he was, and what he had done some in the crowd shouted, one thing and some another and sent the commander, could not get at the truth because of the Uproar, he ordered that Paul be taken into the barracks.

When Paul preached the steps, the violence of the mob was so great.

He had to be carried by the soldiers, the crowd that followed kept shouting away with him.

As the soldiers were about to take Paul into the barracks.

He asked the commander.

May I say something to you? Do you speak Greek?

He replied aren't you?

The Egyptian who started the revolt and led 4000 terrorist out into the desert sometime ago.

Paul answered.

I am a Jew from Tarsus in cilicia, a citizen of No, Ordinary City, please let me speak to the people.

Having received the Commander's permission Paul stood on the steps, in motion to the crowd, and they're all silent.

He said to them in Aramaic brothers and fathers, listen, now, to my defense.

When they heard him speak to them and Aramaic, they became very quiet.

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I'm over it now.

This is a great story and I didn't plan that, but maybe me, you know, getting caught up into some frustration is a good illustration of parts of the story and let's Engage The Story.

So, how does it start?

It starts with Paul having completed a third and very successful missionary tour and then reporting back to the mother Church in Jerusalem, and it's me who adds the question.

Is there some tension if you were paying attention to the story, there's tension in the story, but I'm talking about the beginning of the story which says that when Paul arrived in Jerusalem, everybody, Welcome him warmly, but then there are these these things described and they hint to me at some possible tension.

They met with James and the elders, so Paul arrives from town and they gather James the brother of Jesus, who's the leader of the church in Jerusalem and the elders.

That's the 12 apostles who have never left Jerusalem that have stayed even when the church was dispersed.

So right?

The big guy, this is the, this is Paul returning to the mother church.

And then I'm thinking about the fact that he gave them at a detailed report of everything that he had done.

And I don't know about you, but that sounds like a performance evaluation to me.

And in my work, there has always been and I wanted it this way.

So I've created it if it wasn't there, but there's always been some kind of group of people who to whom to whom I answer and who asked me to give an accounting of my activities.

So I see that and I sent there's a little tension there because this Paul has been out there in the world and as we're going to find out as the story continues, they're aware that there's some rumors out there about him.

I think I think there's even though it's a warm greeting.

There is a little tension, baby of the same kind that you might get when you show up for your performance evaluation and your boss.

Really likes you, but he's been kind of or she been getting ready to tell you a couple things that you could do better.

Let's just take a look at the map of where Paul went on this journey, because this is the end of it.

He started there in Antioch.

Paul himself is from Tarsus, which is in Celestial.

That's a region and then he's gone through Asia Minor.

He's gone up into modern.

This is modern-day turkey.

He's gone up into modern-day Greece.

When all the way down to Corinth, turned around, went back to revisit all those places and and now is intending, while hasn't ended.

When he was here to head back to Jerusalem.

Hoping to get to Jerusalem by Pentecost.

So they they land at Tire, they traveled assessoria.

They go Inland to Jerusalem.

So that's the opening of the story.

Reporting back to the mother Church.

The mother church is afraid that Paul's presence will cause a Ruckus and Paul cooperates with this plan that they make for him.

So, why would they be afraid about this Ruckus?

Here's why in Jerusalem, you have the focus of Everything Jewish and the first followers of Jesus were Jews.

So this portion of the community of the followers of Jesus who are Jews, did not give up their jewishness when they became Christians, if, if you've become a Christian and your American, you haven't given up your American Ness to become a Christian.

So these Jews became followers of Jesus and that, and they didn't stop.

Behaving like juice.

They must have changed a few things.

Eventually, the Jewish followers of Jesus are not making sacrifices.

I have it seems like maybe that stopped right away, but there were other things like the festival's.

Paul wanted to get back to Jerusalem in time for the Festival of Pentecost.

And there were Jews from around the world.

Who'd made a pilgrimage to be in Jerusalem at this time.

And some of those ewes are Jews who have become Christians.

They didn't stop celebrate Pentecost, Passover.

Festival of weeks, day of atonement, Festival of Tabernacles day of atonement.

And Tabernacles are in the fall.

The Jewish Jesus followers seemed to continue their Jewish culture life.

And they had heard some rumors that Paul when he was out there away from Jerusalem, where the Gentiles are had been telling people, you don't have to do that.

You don't have to circumcise your kids.

You don't have to, you don't have to follow these Jewish things but the Jewish Jesus followers were following those things.