unto Rhodes, and thence Patara, and finding a ship about to start for Phoenicia, we went aboard and set forth again.  We left Cyprus on the left, and were landed at Tyre, where there were many disciples who said to me that I must not go to Jerusalem.  We kneeled on the shore and prayed; and when we had taken leave of one another, and I had said:  my face you shall see no more, we took ship, and they returned home.

Next day we were at Caesarea and went to the house of Philip the Apostle (him of many daughters, and all prophetesses), and lived with him, tarrying till there came from Judea Agabus, who, when he saw me, took my girdle and bound his own hands and feet, and said:  so at Jerusalem shall the Jews bind him that owns this girdle, and they shall deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.  At which all my disciples there wept, and I said:  why do ye weep? for your weeping breaks my heart.  Think not of what this man has said, even if he has spoken the truth, for I am ready to die for the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.  I comforted them and went up to Jerusalem, and was received by the brethren.  James and all the elders were present, and after having heard from me how widely the name of our Lord Jesus Christ had been made known to the Gentiles and to the Jews that lived among the Gentiles, they answered:  brother, there are a great many believers among the Jews, and all here are ardent followers of the law, and these have heard that thou teachest to the Jews in exile that Moses may be forsaken, and that they need not circumcise their children and may set aside our customs.  Now, Paul, they asked, what favour dost thou expect from us if these things be as they have been reported to us?  And being sure within myself that it was not counsel they sought from me, but words out of my own mouth whereby they might stir up the people against me, I answered only:  upon whose testimony do ye say these things?  There are, they said, four holy men, who are under a vow; go with them and purify thyself and pay the money they need for the shaving of their heads and all other expenses.  Whereupon I was much angered, seeing the snare that they were laying for me, but, as I have told you, my rule is always to be all things to all men, and remembering that though Jesus Christ our Lord has set us free from the law, it would be better to forgo this liberty than to scandalise a brother, I said:  I will do, brethren, as you ask, and went with the four poor men to the Temple and remained there with them for five days, abstaining from wine, and cutting off—­well, there was little hair for me to cut off, but what there was I cut off.