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Taking Care Not To Offend

Acts 21:25-26

'As for the Gentile believers, we have written to them our decision that they should abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals and from sexual immorality.’ The next day Paul took the men and purified himself along with them. Then he went to the temple to give notice of the date when the days of purification would end and the offering would be made for each of them. (NIVUK)

Paul had come to Jerusalem with his team (Acts 21:17). The Lord had already told him, and others, that he would face great difficulties and imprisonment for the sake of the gospel (Acts 20:22-23); and that he would take the message of Jesus to kings (Acts 9:15-16). But he did not know how God's plan would be worked out. The elders in the Jerusalem church had advised him to take four Jesus-believing Jews to the temple and join them in purification rites. That would demonstrate that Paul was not condemning Jewish customs, and hopefully would refute the lies which had been spread about his