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Acts 21-28

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This song belongs to the Acts collection. 8 recordings are available to play here, with the complete lyrics below.

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[Verse 1] Paul returned to Jerusalem, Though warnings shadowed every mile. A riot rose within the temple; Soldiers carried him from trial. On the castle stair he witnessed, Told the road that changed his name. A plot of forty men was broken; Night moved him from their claim. [Refrain] To Rome, Through council, governor, and king. To Rome, The witness still must speak. Chains cannot cancel calling, Storm cannot erase the road. To Rome, The prisoner carried the word. [Verse 2] Before Felix, Festus, Agrippa, Paul declared the risen hope. He appealed unto Caesar; The sea became the final scope. Euroclydon struck the vessel; Fourteen nights no stars were shown. Paul urged courage: all lives guarded, Though the ship would not go home. [Storm Chorus] Cut the anchors. Loosen rudder. Drive the bow toward unknown shore. Waves broke shipwood near Melita; Two hundred seventy-six reached shore. A viper fastened; Paul shook it; The island watched and healing came. [Final Verse] Three months later, Rome received him, Soldiers chained him in a house. For two full years he taught the kingdom, No man forbidding what he spoke. To Rome, The book ends open, The gospel moving past the page.

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Acts 21: The welcome at Jerusalem is followed by chains

The Book of Acts, chapter 21, carries Paul toward Jerusalem under repeated warning without turning the journey into a simple lesson about whether he should have gone. Disciples at Tyre speak against the journey through the Spirit, Agabus dramatically predicts binding, and companions beg Paul to stay away. Yet the relationships remain warm, and the company finally entrusts the matter to the Lord's will. Jerusalem receives Paul gladly, then asks him to answer a damaging report about his teaching through visible participation in purification. Before that action is complete, opponents make a different accusation based on a mistaken assumption about Trophimus. Roman soldiers stop the beating but place Paul in chains, and the prisoner ends the chapter by asking permission to address the crowd that had wanted him dead.

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Acts 22: The former persecutor explains the commission he received

The Book of Acts, chapter 22, gives Paul's defense the shape of a reversal. He begins inside the world of his accusers, stressing his Jewish upbringing, Gamaliel's instruction, former zeal, and violent campaign against the Way. The Damascus encounter then explains why that course changed, with Jesus identified as the one Paul had been persecuting and Ananias presented as a devout, well-regarded witness. Paul's commission to the Gentiles is located in a vision while he is praying in the temple, sharply answering the charge that his mission arose from contempt for that place. The crowd listens until the Gentile commission is named. A threatened scourging then stops when Paul asks whether an uncondemned Roman citizen may lawfully be treated that way.

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Acts 23: The promise of Rome passes through a nephew’s warning

The Book of Acts, chapter 23, opens with a council that cannot maintain a coherent hearing. A blow ordered by the high priest produces a dispute about law, and Paul's declaration that resurrection is the issue splits Pharisees from Sadducees so sharply that soldiers again have to remove him. That night the Lord connects his Jerusalem witness to a future witness in Rome. The promise is followed not by immediate freedom but by a murder plot involving more than forty men. Paul's unnamed nephew becomes the crucial bearer of information, and Claudius Lysias responds with a large nighttime escort to Caesarea. The commander's letter presents his own actions more favorably than the prior account, yet still admits no charge worthy of death or bonds. Paul ends safer, but still confined.

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