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and there went certain also of the disciples from Caesarea, along with us, who were to introduce us unto one with whom we might be entertained, one Mnason of Cyprus, an early disciple.

Verse ConceptsHospitality, Examples OfIslandsflexibility

and on the morrow Paul was going in with us unto James, all the elders also came,

Verse Conceptselders, in the churchGoing To ChurchThe Elderlyelders

and they having heard, were glorifying the Lord. They said also to him, 'Thou seest, brother, how many myriads there are of Jews who have believed, and all are zealous of the law,

Verse ConceptsZealMany In The ChurchSalvation For IsraelSpecific Praising Of GodTaking The Law To Heartzealots

Them take, and purify thyself with them, and be at charges with them, that they may shave their heads: and all may know that those things, whereof they were informed concerning thee, are nothing; but that thou thyself also walkest orderly, and keepest the law.

Verse ConceptsShavingPurifying OneselfPaying For GoodsKeep The Commandments!

Crying out, Men of Israel, help: This is the man, that teacheth all men every where against the people, and the law, and this place: and further brought Greeks also into the temple, and hath polluted this holy place.

Verse ConceptsHoliness,  Worldly SeparationHoliness, As Set Apart For GodShoutingFalse Accusations, Examples OfMisteachingForeigners In The Holy PlacesGroups HelpingIsrael HardenedPolluting Holy Places

All the city also was moved and there was a running together of the people, and having laid hold on Paul, they were drawing him out of the temple, and immediately were the doors shut,

Verse ConceptsArrestingShutting GatesPulling People

When, also, they were seeking to slay him, there was carried up information, unto the captain of the band, that all Jerusalem was in confusion: -

Verse ConceptsConfusion, Examples OfArmies, RomanAttempting To Kill Specific PeopleChiliarchs

as, even the High-priest, beareth me witness, and all the Eldership, - from whom, letters also, accepting to the brethren, unto Damascus, was I journeying, to bring them who were there bound unto Jerusalem, that they might be punished.

Verse ConceptsLettersSanhedrin

I fell also to the ground, and heard a voice saying unto me - Saul! Saul! Why, me, art thou persecuting?

Verse ConceptsDuplicating WordsPeople Tumbling

Now, as they were both making an outcry and tearing their mantles, - dust, also were throwing into the air,

Verse ConceptsSwingingWiping DustGroups ShoutingPeople Abandoning People

And the chiliarch answered, I, for a great sum, bought this citizenship. And Paul said, But I was also free born.

Verse ConceptsCivil LibertyExpensiveCitizensReligious Freedomserenity

Then straightway they departed from him which should have examined him: and the chief captain also was afraid, after he knew that he was a Roman, and because he had bound him.

Verse ConceptsChainsTying UpCitizens

He summoned two of the officers and said, "Get ready by nine o'clock to-night two hundred infantry to march as far as Caesarea, also seventy troopers, and two hundred spearmen."

Verse ConceptsTravelThe Number Two HundredRiding HorsesSeventiesTwo Other Men

beasts also provide, in order that, seating Paul thereon, they may bring him safely through unto Felix the governor.

Verse ConceptsGovernorsRankSafetyRiding Horses

He also wrote a letter of which these were the contents:

Verse ConceptsLetters

But, when I was informed there would be a plot against the man, forthwith, I sent him unto thee, charging, his accusers also, to be speaking against him before thee.

Verse ConceptsPeople Accusing People

and the others, entering into Caesarea, and delivering the letter unto the governor, set, Paul also, before him.

And when he had read the letter, he inquired to what province he belonged. And learning that he was from Cilicia, he said: I will hear you when your accusers also have come. And he ordered him to be kept under guard in Herod's palace.

Verse ConceptsProvinces

I myself will hear thee in full, said he, whensoever, thine accusers also, are come; and gave orders that, in the palace of Herod, he should be kept under guard.

Verse ConceptsGuardsPalacesPunishment, Legal Aspects Of

always, also, and everywhere we receive it, most noble Felix, with all thankfulness;

Verse ConceptsGratitudeThanks To PeopleBeing GratefulGrateful HeartThanksgiving And Gratitude

For, finding this man a pest, and moving sedition with all the Jews that are throughout the inhabited earth, a leader also of the sect of the Nazarenes, -

Verse ConceptsHeresiesPersecution, Forms OfSectsFalse Accusations, Examples OfDissension

Now, after many years, intending to do, alms, unto my nation, I arrived, - also to present offerings; among which they found me, purified in the temple, not with a multitude, nor with tumult;

Verse ConceptsGiftsPoverty, Attitudes TowardsPoverty, Remedies ForAlmsgivingAltruismCharityGiving To The Poor

having given also a direction to the centurion to keep Paul, to let him also have liberty, and to forbid none of his own friends to minister or to come near to him.

Verse ConceptsCenturionGuardsPeople Set Free By Peoplerelaxation

and two years having been fulfilled, Felix received a successor, Porcius Festus; Felix also willing to lay a favour on the Jews, left Paul bound.

Verse ConceptsMen PleasersBad Decision Making ExamplesPopularityPleasing MenPopularity Sought

and Paul said, 'At the tribunal of Caesar I am standing, where it behoveth me to be judged; to Jews I did no unrighteousness, as thou dost also very well know;

Verse ConceptsRoman CitizensStandingCourt SessionsIsrael HardenedJudgement Seat

My answer to them was, that it was not the practice of Romans to give up any man to his accusers till the accused had met them face to face, and had also had an opportunity of answering the charges brought against him.

Verse ConceptsCustomContact With PeopleMan Defending

And, Agrippa, said unto Festus - I could wish, myself also, to hear, the man. To-morrow, (saith he) thou shalt hear him.

Verse ConceptsMan's Action Tomorrow

on the morrow, therefore -- on the coming of Agrippa and Bernice with much display, and they having entered into the audience chamber, with the chief captains also, and the principal men of the city, and Festus having ordered -- Paul was brought forth.

Verse ConceptsJudgment SeatOfficersRankDisplayingHalls

And Festus said, King Agrippa, and all men which are here present with us, ye see this man, about whom all the multitude of the Jews have dealt with me, both at Jerusalem, and also here, crying that he ought not to live any longer.

Verse ConceptsDeath As PunishmentIsrael Hardened

and I, having found him to have done nothing worthy of death, and he also himself having appealed to Sebastus, I decided to send him,

Verse ConceptsempiresDeserving Death

For, unreasonable, unto me, it seemeth, when sending a prisoner, not also, the accusations against him, to signify.

Verse ConceptsPeople Accusing People

Especially thee being judge of all the customs among the Jews, and also of the questions: wherefore I beseech thee to hear me patiently.

Verse ConceptsPatience, In Christian LivingScholarsPay Attention To People!

I also verily thought in myself, that I ought to do many contrary things, clean against the name of Jesus of Nazareth:

which also I did in Jerusalem, yea and, many of the saints, I myself, in prisons, shut up, - the authority, from the High-priests, having received: and, when they were to be put to death, I brought against them my vote;

Verse ConceptsChief priestsPrisonersPunishment, Legal Aspects OfSaintsShutting SecurelyKilling DisciplesAuthority Delegated To People

and in every synagogue, often punishing them, I was constraining them to speak evil, being also exceedingly mad against them, I was also persecuting them even unto strange cities.

Verse ConceptsForeign ThingsBlasphemy

In which things, also, going on to Damascus -- with authority and commission from the chief priests --

Verse ConceptsAuthority Delegated To PeopleMan Appointingdamascus

But get up and stand on your feet; for this purpose I have appeared to you, to appoint you a minister and a witness not only to the things which you have seen, but also to the things in which I will appear to you;

Verse ConceptsDivine PurposesWitnesses, To Jesus ChristChrist AppearingWitness To The GospelGet Up!Why It HappenedPurposeRisingMinistry

But - both to them in Damascus, first, and in Jerusalem, unto all the country of Judaea also, and unto the nations, I carried tidings - that they should repent, and turn unto God, and, works worthy of their repentance, should practise.

Verse ConceptsConversion, nature ofMissionaries, Task OfPreaching, Content OfProof, As EvidenceRepentance, Nature OfRevelation, Responses ToUrgencyPreaching Gospel To ForeignersRepentance And ForgivenessSigns Of RepentanceWorks Of FaithRepentancedamascusevangelising

That the Christ must suffer, and that, by rising from the dead, he was destined to be the first to bring news of Light, not only to our nation, but also to the Gentiles."

Verse ConceptsLight, SpiritualResurrection, Of BelieversPreaching Gospel To ForeignersChrist The BeginningThe Light Of ChristChrist Would RiseThe Gospel To Jew And GentileLight As A Symbol Of Salvation

For the king knoweth of these things, before whom also I speak freely: for I am persuaded that none of these things are hidden from him; for this thing was not done in a corner.

Verse ConceptsSecrecyAvoiding SecrecyPeople With General KnowledgeBoldness

And Paul said, I would to God, that not only thou, but also all that hear me this day, were both almost, and altogether such as I am, except these bonds.

Verse ConceptsChainsListeningIron ChainsBecoming Like People

And the king rose up, and the governor, Bernice also, and they who had been sitting with them;

Verse ConceptsPeople Getting Up

on the next day also we touched at Sidon, and Julius, courteously treating Paul, did permit him, having gone on unto friends, to receive their care.

Verse ConceptsKindnessCourtesyShipsThe Next DayChristians Are Called Friends

And much time being spent, and the sailing being now dangerous -- because of the fast also being already past -- Paul was admonishing,

Verse ConceptsFasting, Nature OfAtonementLossFasting RegularlyTime Passingsailing

And because the haven was not commodious to winter in, the more part advised to depart thence also, if by any means they might attain to Phenice, and there to winter; which is an haven of Crete, and lieth toward the south west and north west.

Verse ConceptsWinterHarborsCompassessailing

who also, with many honours, honoured us, and, when we were about to sail, put on board such things as we might need.

Verse ConceptsPeople Providing

and having appointed him a day, they came, more of them unto him, to the lodging, to whom he was expounding, testifying fully the reign of God, persuading them also of the things concerning Jesus, both from the law of Moses, and the prophets, from morning till evening,

Verse ConceptsExplanationsKingdom Of God, Coming OfMorningDealing With Many PeopleFrom Morning Till EveningChrist And The ScripturesStudying The LawWritten In The Prophets

For the mind of this nation has grown dense, and their ears are dull of hearing, their eyes also have they closed; lest some day they should see with their eyes, and with their ears they should hear, and in their mind they should understand, and should turn--and I should heal them.'

Verse ConceptsHardened HeartsLack Of DiscernmentHeart, Fallen And RedeemedIndifferenceInsensibilityDullnessNature Of The HeartRefusing To HearNot Seeing Spiritual ThingsBeing Without UnderstandingFeelingGod Heals