Therefore take care, so that what is said in the prophets may not come upon you:

But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy, and contradicted what was spoken by Paul, and blasphemed.

For so the Lord has commanded us: 'I have made you a light for the Gentiles, that you may bring salvation to the ends of the earth.'"

So they shook off the dust from their feet in protest against them and went to Iconium.

Now at Iconium they entered together into the Jewish synagogue, and so spoke that a great number believed, both of Jews and of Greeks.

So they spent a long time there, speaking boldly for the Lord, who bore witness to the word of his grace, granting signs and wonders to be done by their hands.

And when the crowds saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices, saying in the Lycaonian language, "The gods have come down to us in the likeness of men!"

"Men, why are you doing this? We also are men, of like nature with you, and bring you good news, that you should turn from these vain things to a living God who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all that is in them.

So, being sent on their way by the church, they passed through both Phoenicia and Samaria, reporting the conversion of the Gentiles, and they gave great joy to all the brethren.

so that the rest of mankind may seek the Lord, and all the Gentiles who are called by my name,'

So when they were sent off, they went down to Antioch; and having gathered the congregation together, they delivered the letter.

After some days Paul said to Barnabas, "Let us return and visit the brethren in every city where we proclaimed the word of the Lord, and see how they are."

So the churches were strengthened in the faith, and increased in numbers daily.

so passing by Mysia, they went down to Troas.

So putting out to sea from Troas, we ran a straight course to Samothrace, and on the day following to Neapolis;

But when her owners saw that their hope of profit was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace before the authorities,

and suddenly there came a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened and everyone's chains were unfastened.

When the jailer woke and saw that the prison doors were open, he drew his sword and was about to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had escaped.

So they came and apologized to them, and they took them out and asked them to leave the city.

They went out of the prison and entered the house of Lydia, and when they saw the brethren, they encouraged them and departed.

Now these were more noble-minded than those in Thessalonica, for they received the word with great eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.

Then the brethren immediately sent Paul out to go as far as the sea, but Silas and Timothy remained there.

Now while Paul was waiting for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw that the city was full of idols.

So he was reasoning in the synagogue with the Jews and the God-fearing Greeks, and in the market place every day with those who happened to be there.

And also some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers were conversing with him. Some said, "What would this idle babbler wish to say?" Others, "He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign deities,"because he was preaching Jesus and the resurrection.

For you are bringing some strange things to our ears; so we want to know what these things mean."

So Paul stood up in the meeting of the Areopagus and said: "Men of Athens, I see that in every way you are very religious.

Being then God's offspring, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of man.

So Paul went out from among them.

And he found a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, having recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to leave Rome. He went to see them,

but since it is a matter of questions about words and names and your own law, see to it yourselves; I refuse to be a judge of these things."

And he said, "Into what then were you baptized?" They said, "Into John's baptism."

This took place for two years, so that all who lived in the province of Asia heard the word of the Lord, both Jews and Greeks.

so that handkerchiefs or aprons were even carried from his body to the sick, and diseases left them and the evil spirits went out.

And the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, overpowered all of them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.

So the word of the Lord grew mightily and prevailed.

Now after these things were finished, Paul purposed in the spirit to go to Jerusalem after he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, saying, "After I have been there, I must also see Rome."

And you see and hear that not only in Ephesus, but in almost all of Asia, this Paul has persuaded and turned away a considerable number of people, saying that gods made with hands are no gods at all.

The city was filled with the confusion, and they rushed with one accord into the theater, dragging along Gaius and Aristarchus, Paul's traveling companions from Macedonia.

As it is, we are in danger of being charged with rioting because of today's events. In that case we would not be able to account for this commotion, since there is no reason for it."

But going ahead to the ship, we set sail for Assos, intending to take Paul aboard there; for so he had arranged, intending himself to go by land.

For Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus, so that he would not have to spend time in Asia; for he was hurrying to be in Jerusalem, if possible, on the day of Pentecost.

And now, behold, I know that all of you among whom I have gone about preaching the kingdom will see my face no more.

I have coveted no one's silver or gold or clothes.

grieving most of all over the word which he had spoken, that they would not see his face again. And they accompanied him to the ship.

And coming to us, he took Paul's belt and bound his own feet and hands, and said, "This is what the Holy Spirit says, 'In this way the Jews at Jerusalem will bind the man who owns this belt and deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.'"

And when they heard it, they glorified God. And they said to him, "You see, brother, how many thousands there are among the Jews of those who have believed; they are all zealous for the law,

take these men and purify yourself along with them and pay their expenses, so that they may shave their heads. Thus all will know that there is nothing in what they have been told about you, but that you yourself live in observance of the law.

At once he took along some soldiers and centurions and ran down to them; and when they saw the commander and the soldiers, they stopped beating Paul.

As Paul was about to be brought into the barracks, he said to the commander, "May I say something to you?" And he said, "Do you know Greek?

And those who were with me saw the light, but did not hear the voice of the one who was speaking to me.

But since I could not see because of the brightness of that light, I was led by the hand by those who were with me and came into Damascus.

Then he said, 'The God of our fathers has appointed you to know his will and to see the Righteous One and to hear words from his mouth.

and saw him saying to me, 'Make haste, and get out of Jerusalem quickly, because they will not accept your testimony about me.'

the commander ordered him to be brought into the barracks, and commanded him to be examined by scourging so that he might find out the reason why they were shouting against him that way.

So the commander came and said to him, "Tell me, are you a Roman citizen?" And he said, "Yes."

So those who were about to examine him withdrew from him immediately; and the commander also was afraid when he realized that Paul was a Roman citizen and that he had put him in chains.

Those who stood by said, "Would you revile God's high priest?"

For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, nor an angel, nor a spirit, but the Pharisees acknowledge them all.

The dispute became so violent that the commander was afraid Paul would be torn to pieces by them and ordered the troops to go down and take him away from them by force, and bring him into the barracks.

The following night the Lord stood by him and said, "Take courage, for as you have testified about me at Jerusalem, so you must bear witness also at Rome."

But the son of Paul's sister heard of their ambush, and he went and entered the barracks and told Paul.

So he took him and brought him to the commander and said, "Paul the prisoner called me and asked me to bring this young man to you, since he has something to tell you."

So the commander dismissed the young man, instructing him, "Tell no one that you have informed me of this."

So the soldiers, in accordance with their orders, took Paul and brought him by night to Antipatris.

he said, "I will hear you when your accusers arrive also." And he commanded him to be kept in Herod's Praetorium.

He even tried to desecrate the temple; so we seized him.

The Jews also joined in the attack, asserting that these things were so.

And so I do my best always to have a clear conscience before God and men.

At the same time, he was hoping that money would be given him by Paul. So he sent for him often and conversed with him.

But Paul said, "I am standing before Caesar's tribunal, where I ought to be tried. I have done no wrong to the Jews, as you also very well know.

While they were spending many days there, Festus laid Paul's case before the king, saying, "There is a man who was left as a prisoner by Felix;

But when Paul appealed to be held in custody for the Emperor's decision, I ordered him to be kept in custody until I could send him to Caesar.

So on the next day Agrippa and Bernice came with great pomp and entered the audience room with the high ranking officers and the prominent men of the city. At the command of Festus, Paul was brought in.

Festus said, "King Agrippa and all who are present with us, you see this man about whom the whole Jewish people petitioned me, both at Jerusalem and here, shouting that he ought not to live any longer.

But I have nothing definite about him to write to my lord. Therefore I have brought him before you all and especially before you, King Agrippa, so that after the investigation has taken place, I may have something to write.

So then, all the Jews know my manner of life from my youth up, which from the beginning was spent among my own nation and at Jerusalem.

At midday, O King, I saw on the way a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, shining around me and those who journeyed with me.

to open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.'

"So, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision,

To this day I have had the help that comes from God, and so I stand here testifying both to small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets and Moses said would happen:

And embarking in a ship from Adramyttium, which was about to sail to the ports along the coast of Asia, we put out to sea, accompanied by Aristarchus, a Macedonian from Thessalonica.

We put out to sea from there and sailed under the lee of Cyprus, because the winds were against us.

When we had sailed across the open sea off the coast of Cilicia and Pamphylia, we landed at Myra in Lycia.

Because the harbor was not suitable to winter in, the majority reached a decision to put out to sea from there, on the chance that somehow they could reach Phoenix, a harbor of Crete, facing southwest and northwest, and spend the winter there.

After they had hoisted it up, they used supporting cables to undergird the ship; and fearing that they might run aground on the shallows of Syrtis, they lowered the sea anchor and in this way let themselves be driven along.

and on the third day they threw the ship's tackle overboard with their own hands.

So keep up your courage, men, for I have faith in God that it will happen exactly as I have been told.

But when the fourteenth night came, as we were being driven across the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the sailors began to sense that they were approaching land.

But as the sailors were trying to escape from the ship and had let down the lifeboat into the sea, on the pretense of laying out anchors from the bow,

When they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship by throwing out the wheat into the sea.

So they cast off the anchors and left them in the sea, at the same time loosening the ropes that tied the rudders; then hoisting the foresail to the wind they made for the beach.

The soldiers' plan was to kill the prisoners, so that none of them would swim away and escape.

and the rest on planks or on various pieces of the ship. And so it happened that they were all brought safely to land.

When the natives saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, "No doubt this man is a murderer. Though he has escaped from the sea, justice has not allowed him to live."

They waited, expecting him to swell up or suddenly fall down dead; but after they had waited a long time and saw nothing unusual happen to him, they changed their minds and said that he was a god.

It happened that the father of Publius was lying in bed sick with recurrent fever and dysentery; and Paul went in to see him and after he had prayed, he laid his hands on him and healed him.

There we found some brethren, and were invited to stay with them for seven days. And so we came to Rome.

And the brethren, when they heard of us, came from there as far as the Forum of Appius and Three Taverns to meet us. When Paul saw them, he thanked God and took courage.

For this reason therefore I have asked to see you and speak with you, since it is because of the hope of Israel that I am bound with this chain."