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Some of the disciples from Caesarea went with us also, bringing with them Mnason from Cyprus, an early disciple, with whom we were to live [while in Jerusalem].

Verse ConceptsHospitality, Examples OfIslandsflexibility

Now while they were trying to kill him, news reached the colonel of the regiment that all Jerusalem was in a ferment.

Verse ConceptsConfusion, Examples OfArmies, RomanAttempting To Kill Specific PeopleChiliarchs

"But while I was on my way and approaching Damascus about noon, a bright light from heaven suddenly flashed around me.

Verse ConceptsLight, NaturalNoonAurasLight In The Worlddamascus

After I had come back to Jerusalem, one day while I was praying in the temple, I fell into a trance,

Verse ConceptsDisciples In The TempleWhere To Pray

While they were shouting and tossing their clothes about and flinging dust into the air,

Verse ConceptsSwingingWiping DustGroups ShoutingPeople Abandoning People

The next day, they let the horsemen ride with Paul while they returned to their barracks.

Verse ConceptsRiding HorsesGroups going home

[While there] I was not observed arguing with anyone or trying to stir up a crowd [to riot] in the Temple or in the synagogues or [anywhere else] in the city.

Verse ConceptsDisputesDiscussionsDisciples In The Temple

While I was performing these duties they found me just as I had completed the rites of my purification in the temple; however, there was no crowd with me and no disturbance at all.

Verse ConceptsTumultDisciples In The Temple

Or else let these same here say, if they have found any evil doing in me, while I stood before the council,

Verse ConceptsSanhedrinWhat Sin?

other than concerning this one declaration that I shouted [while] standing there before them: 'I am being judged before you today concerning the resurrection of the dead!'"

Verse ConceptsThe Dead Are Raised

And [while] he was discussing about righteousness and self control and the judgment that is to come, Felix became afraid [and] replied, "Go away for the present, and [when I] have an opportunity, I will summon you."

Verse ConceptsConviction, Not Leading To RepentanceGiving, Of TimeBribery, Examples OfIndecisionSelf ControlEternal JudgmentConviction Of SinJudgement To ComeThe Final JudgementGod Doing RightDoing RightNowRight Time For PeopleThose Frightened Of GodOpportunityJudgement DayEthics

And asked a favor of him, to Paul's injury--to have Paul brought to Jerusalem. All the while they were plotting to make away with him on the road.

Verse ConceptsAskingImportunity, Towards PeopleSpiritual Warfare, Causes OfAmbushAttempting To Kill Specific People

While he answered for himself, Neither against the law of the Jews, neither against the temple, nor yet against Caesar, have I offended any thing at all.

Verse ConceptsJustice, In Believers' LivesOrderly AccountsPlea Of InnocenceTaking The Law To Heart

And while they were staying there many days, Festus laid out the [case] against Paul to the king, saying, "There is a certain man left behind by Felix [as] a prisoner,

who previously knew me a long while ago, (if they chose to bear testimony,) that according to the most precise sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.

Verse ConceptsKnowing PeopleHeresiesJudaismSectsStrictness

While in this business I once was on my way to Damascus with authority based on a commission from the high priests,

Verse ConceptsAuthority Delegated To PeopleMan Appointingdamascus

King Agrippa, while on the road at midday, I saw a light from heaven brighter than the sun, shining around me and those traveling with me.

Verse ConceptsLight, NaturalNoonThe SunLight In The World

On account of these things the Jews, taking me while in the temple, endeavored to kill me.

Verse ConceptsAttempting To Kill Specific PeopleDisciples In The Temple

While Paul was making this defense, Festus called out loudly: "You are mad, Paul; your great learning is driving you mad."

Verse ConceptsIntelligenceMockeryLunaticsEducation

while two days later they threw the ship's gear overboard with their own hands;

Verse ConceptsThe Third Day Of The WeekBuoyancyAbandoning Thingssailing

Now after being a long while without food, then stood up Paul in the midst of them, and said, Ye ought, my friends, to have been persuaded by me, and not have sailed from Crete, and got this loss and damage.

Verse ConceptsFatigueadvisersFasting, Examples OfPay Attention To People!Natural DisastersAbstinencesailing

But when the fourteenth day came, while we were going here and there in the Adriatic sea, about the middle of the night the sailors had an idea that they were getting near land;

Verse ConceptsMonotonySeaMidnightTen Or More Dayssailing

They took soundings, and found twenty fathoms. After a little while, they took soundings again, and found fifteen fathoms.

Verse ConceptsdepthDepthingNavigation

And while the day was coming on, Paul besought them all to take meat, saying, This day is the fourteenth day that ye have tarried and continued fasting, having taken nothing.

Verse ConceptsDawnFasting, Reasons ForFasting, Nature OfTen Or More Days

So the anchors were cut away and left in the sea, while the crew unlashed the ropes that tied the rudders, hoisted the foresail to the breeze, and headed for the beach.

Verse ConceptsAnchorsShipsAbandoning ThingsUndoing Fasteningssailing

But they struck a shoal and ran the ship aground; the bow stuck and remained unmoved, while the stern began to break to pieces under the beating of the waves.

Verse ConceptsBoatsSandThe NavyShallownessWavesStaying PutBroken ThingsTwo Other ThingsBack Of ThingsIn Front

while the rest were to manage with planks or pieces of wreckage. In this way it turned out that the whole company got safe to land.

Verse ConceptsSafetyBoards

Howbeit they looked when he should have swollen, or fallen down dead suddenly: but after they had looked a great while, and saw no harm come to him, they changed their minds, and said that he was a god.

Verse ConceptsFalse GodsWaitingPossibility Of DeathPeople Changing Their MindsSwellingMen As Gods

who also honored us with many honorariums. And while putting out to sea, they furnished the things for our necessities.

Verse ConceptsPeople Providing

And it happened after three days that Paul called together those who were the leading Jews, and when they assembled he said to them, "Brothers, although I had done nothing against the [Jewish] people or the customs of our forefathers, yet I was made a prisoner at Jerusalem, being placed in the custody of the Romans [while there].

Verse ConceptsCustomAncestorsPrisonersPlea Of InnocenceSalvation For Israel

[After he said these things, the Jews departed, while engaging in a prolonged debate among themselves.]

Verse ConceptsDisputes