until another king who did not know about Joseph ruled over Egypt.

Then they asked for a king, and God gave them Saul son of Kish, a man from the tribe of Benjamin, who ruled forty years.

For it seemed best to the Holy Spirit and to us not to place any greater burden on you than these necessary rules:

When Paul had been summoned, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying, “We have experienced a lengthy time of peace through your rule, and reforms are being made in this nation through your foresight.

So when Peter went up to Jerusalem, the circumcised believers took issue with him,

All this took about four hundred fifty years. After this he gave them judges until the time of Samuel the prophet.

and are advocating customs that are not lawful for us to accept or practice, since we are Romans.”

Now three days after Festus arrived in the province, he went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea.

For we have heard him saying that Jesus the Nazarene will destroy this place and change the customs that Moses handed down to us.”

Now some men came down from Judea and began to teach the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.”

As they went through the towns, they passed on the decrees that had been decided on by the apostles and elders in Jerusalem for the Gentile believers to obey.

Paul replied, “I did not realize, brothers, that he was the high priest, for it is written, ‘You must not speak evil about a ruler of your people.’”

They have been informed about you – that you teach all the Jews now living among the Gentiles to abandon Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children or live according to our customs.

take them and purify yourself along with them and pay their expenses, so that they may have their heads shaved. Then everyone will know there is nothing in what they have been told about you, but that you yourself live in conformity with the law.