For this cause therefore have I called for you, to see you, and to speak with you: because that for the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain.

So they set a day for him, and came in large numbers to see him at the place where he was lodging, and from morning till night he continued to explain to them the kingdom of God, at the same time giving them his own testimony and trying from the law of Moses and the prophets to convince them about Jesus.

'Go to this people and say to them, "You will listen, and listen, and never understand, and you will look, and look, and never see!

For the heart of this people is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes have they closed; lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.

So Paul for two whole years lived in a rented house of his own; he continued to welcome everybody who came to see him;