21 When it was time for us to sail, we left them and sailed directly across to Cos before going on to Rhodes the next day and then on to Patara. 2 From there we found a ship heading to Phoenicia, so we boarded that and set off. 3 After sighting Cyprus and then leaving it behind on our left, we sailed on to Syria and docked there at the port of Tyre where the ship had cargo to be unloaded. 4 We searched for the believers there and then stayed on with them for seven days. They were inspired by the spirit to tell Paul not to go to Yerusalem. 5 Once our time was up there and everyone knew that we were leaving, even the wives and children accompanied us out of the city to the port. We all knelt on the beach and prayed 6 before we continued on and boarded our ship and they went back to their own homes.

7 So we sailed from Tyre down to Ptolemais where we were able to greet the brothers and sisters and stay overnight with them. 8 The next day we continued on to Caesarea and ended up in Philip’s house. He was one of the original seven men who had been given the responsibility of distributing aid—a preacher of the good message, and we stayed with him. 9 Philip had four unmarried daughters still at home, and they shared messages from God. 10 Several days later a man named Agabus came from Yudea. He too shared messages from God 11 and when he arrived, he picked up Paul’s belt and tied it around his own feet and hands, telling them that the holy spirit had told him that this is how the owner of the belt would be treated by the Jewish leaders in Yerusalem before they would then hand him over to the non-Jews to be dealt with.

12 When we heard this described, both we and the locals begged Paul not to go to Yerusalem 13 but he answered, “Oh come on, what’s all this weeping and carrying on that’s breaking my heart. Actually I’m quite ready not only to be tied up, but even to be killed in Yerusalem as a testimony to the master Yeshua.”

14 When we saw that we couldn’t change his mind, we didn’t say anything else, figuring out that whatever the master wills for the situation would happen, 15 and so after these several days, we had gotten everything ready and started off for Yerusalem. 16 Some of the believers from Caesarea accompanied us and led us to the home of a man named Mnason to stay—he was an older believer from Cyprus.