The Newe Testament dylygently corrected and compared with the Greke by Willyam Tindale, and fynesshed in the yere of our Lorde God A.M.D. & xxxiiij. in the moneth of Nouember.

¶ The .xxi. Chapter.

ANd it chaunsed that assone as we had [ A] launched forth / & were departed from them / we came with a strayght course vnto Choon / and the daye folowinge vnto the Rhodes / & from thence vnto Patara. And we founde a shippe redy to sayle vnto Phenices / and went a borde & set forthe. Then appered vnto vs Cyprus / and we lefte it on the lefte honde / and sayled vnto Syria / and came vnto Tyre. For there the shyppe vnladed her bur∣then. And when we had founde brethren / we taryed there .vii. dayes. And they tolde Paul thorowe y^e sprete: that he shuld not goo vp to

Ierusalem. And when the dayes were ended / we departed & went ••ure wayes / and they all brought vs on oure waye / w^t their wyves and chyldren / tyll we were come out of the cyte. And we kneled doune in the shore & prayde. And when we had taken oure leave one of another / we toke shyppe / and they returned home agayne. [ B]

When we had full ended the course frō Ty¦re / we aryved at Ptolomaida / & saluted the bre¦thren / & abode with thē one daye. The nexte daye / we that were of Pauls cōpany / depar∣ted & came vnto Cesarea. And we entred into the housse of Philip y^• Evāgelist / which was* 1.1 one of the sevē deacones / & abode with him. The same man had fower doughters virgēs / which dyd prophesy. And as we taried there a good many dayes / there came a certayne pro¦phete from Iurie / named Agabus. When he* 1.2 was come vnto vs / he toke Pauls gerdell / & bounde his hondes & fete / & sayde: thus saith the holy goost: so shall y^• Iewes at Ierusalem bynde the man y^t oweth this gerdell / & shall delyver him into the hondes of the gentyls.

When we hearde this / both we & other of [ C] the same place / be sought him / that he wolde not goo vp to Ierusalem. Then Paul answe∣red & sayde: what do ye wepynge & breakin∣ge myne hert? I am redy not to be bound on∣ly / but also to dye at Ierusalem for y^e name of y^• Lorde Iesu. When we coulde not turne his mynde / we ceased sayinge: the will of y^• Lorde be fulfilled. After those dayes we made oure

selfes redy / & went vp to Ierusalem. There went with vs also certayne of his disciples of Cesarea / & brought with them one Mna∣son of Cyprus / an olde disciple with whom we shuld lodge. And when we were come to Ierusalem / the brethren receaved vs gladly. And on the morowe Paul wēt in with vs vn to Iames. And all the elders came to geder. And when he had saluted them / he tolde by [ D] order all thing{is} that God had wrought amō¦ge the gētyls by his ministracion. And when they hearde it / they glorified the Lorde / & say∣de vnto him: thou seist brother / how many thousande Iewes ther are which beleve / and they are all zelous over y^• lawe. And they are informed of the / that thou teachest all the Ie∣wes which are amōge the gentyls / to forsake Moses / & sayst that they ought not to circum¦cise their chyldren / nether to live after the cu∣stomes. What is it therfore? The multitude must nedes come togeder. For they shall hea∣re that thou arte come. Do therfore this that we saye to the.

We have .iiii. men / which have a vowe on [ E] * 1.3 them. Them take / and purifye thy selfe with them / & do cost on them / that they maye shave their heeddes / & all shall knowe y^t tho thing{is} which they have hearde concerninge the / are nothinge: but that thou thy selfe also walkest & kepest the lawe. For as touchinge the gen∣tyls which beleve / we have written & conclu∣ded / y^• they observe no soche thinges: but that they kepe them selves from thinges offred to

ydoles / from bloud / frō strangled & frō forni∣cacion. Then the nexte daye Paul toke the men / & purified him selfe with them / & entred into the tēple / declaringe that he observed the dayes of y^• purificaciō / vntyll that an offerin¦ge shuld be offred for every one of them.

And as the seven dayes shuld have bene en¦ded / y^• Iewes which were of Asia when they sawe him in the tēple / they moved all the peo¦ple / & layde hondes on him cryinge: men of Israel helpe. This is the man that teacheth all men every where agaynst the people / & the lawe / and this place. Moreover also he hath brought Grekes into the tēple / & hath pollu∣ted this holy place. For they sawe one Tro∣phimus an Ephesian with him in the cyte. Him they supposed Paul had brought into the tēple. And all the cyte was moved / & the people swarmed to geder. And they toke Paul & drue him out of the tēple / & forthwith the dores were shut to.

As they went about to kyll him / tydinges came vnto the hye captayne of the soudiers / that [ F] all Ierusalem was moved. Which im∣mediatly toke soudiers & vndercaptaynes / & ranne doune vnto them. When they sawe y^• vpper captayne & the soudiers / they lefte smy¦tinge of Paul. Then the captayne came nea∣re & toke him / & cōmaunded him to be boun∣de with two chaynes / & demaunded what he was / & what he had done. And one cryed this / another that amōge the people. And whē he coulde not knowe the certayntie for y^• rage /

he cōmaunded him to be caryed into the cast∣le. And whē he came vnto a grece / it fortuned that he was borne of the soudiers of the vio∣lence of the people. For the multitude of the people folowed after cryinge: awaye w^t him.

And as Paul shuld have bene caryed into [ G] the castle / he sayde vnto the hye Captayne: maye I speake vnto the? Which sayde: canst thou speake Greke? Arte not thou that Egy∣pcian which before these dayes made an vp roure & ledde out into the wildernes .iiii. thou sande men that were mortherers? But Paul sayde: I am a mā which am a Iewe of Tha•• sus a cite in Cicill a Citesyn of no vyle cite / •• beseche y^e soffre me to speake vnto y^e people. When he had gevē him licēce / Paul stode on y^e steppes & beckned with the honde vnto the people / & ther was made a greate silence. And he spake vnto thē in y^e Ebrue tonge sayinge:

Notes

• * 1.1

  Phillip.
• * 1.2

  Agabus.
• * 1.3

  nume. vj.