Acts 21:17-23:35

Paul and his team finally return to Jerusalem and meet with the Christian elders and apostles in the city.  They rejoice over all the things that Paul reported from his journeys, but warn him that there are many Jews in the city who are on the look out to kill him.  Paul goes to the temple and performs the rites of purification and sacrifice, but when he leaves the temple, the Jews attack him, and would have killed him except that the Roman commander intervened and arrested him.  Paul is given an opportunity to tell his story to the crowd, but they kind of lose their mind when he tells them that God had sent him to preach to the Gentiles.  A gang of 40 Jews devise a plan to kill Paul, but their scheme is discovered, and the Roman Commander sends him under guard to Felix, the Roman Governor at Caesarea, who agrees to hear Paul’s case after his accusers from Jerusalem come to provide their testimony against him.