'while they were thus engaged in making the offering, they found me already completed the purification in the temple, without any crowd or disturbance' — Paul was in the temple completing purification rites (the Nazirite vow undertaken with James) peacefully. The temple action was not seditious but pious; the narrative corroborates the elders' counsel that Paul participate in a Jewish vow.

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