Acts 21:4

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“We sought out the disciples in Tyre and stayed with them seven days. Through the Spirit they kept telling Paul not to go up to Jerusalem.”

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BSBPD

“We sought out the disciples in Tyre and stayed with them seven days. Through the Spirit they kept telling Paul not to go up to Jerusalem.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“And finding disciples, we tarried there seven days: who said to Paul through the Spirit, that he should not go up to Jerusalem.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“And having found the disciples, we tarried there seven days: and these said to Paul through the Spirit, that he should not set foot in Jerusalem.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“And having found out the disciples, we tarried there seven days, and they said to Paul, through the Spirit, not to go up to Jerusalem;”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Acts 21:4 — 9 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Matthew 10:11Whatever town or village you enter, find out who is worthy there and stay at his house until you move on.
  2. Acts 11:26and when he found him, he brought him back to Antioch. So for a full year they met together with the church and taught large numbers of people. The disciples were first called Christians at Antioch.
  3. Acts 19:1While Apollos was at Corinth, Paul passed through the interior and came to Ephesus. There he found some disciples
  4. Acts 20:6And after the Feast of Unleavened Bread, we sailed from Philippi, and five days later we rejoined them in Troas, where we stayed seven days.
  5. Acts 20:22And now, compelled by the Spirit, I am going to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there.
  6. Acts 21:10After we had been there several days, a prophet named Agabus came down from Judea.
  7. Acts 28:14There we found some brothers who invited us to spend the week with them. And so we came to Rome.
  8. 2 Timothy 1:17Indeed, when he arrived in Rome, he searched diligently until he found me.
  9. Revelation 1:10On the Lord’s day I was in the Spirit, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet,

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