and when he saw Peter and John on the point of going into the Temple he asked them to give him something.

You offered me the tent of Moloch and the star of your god Rompha, The images you had made to worship! So I will deport you beyond Babylon.'

Then Paul stood up in the middle of the council and said, "Men of Athens, from every point of view I see that you are extremely religious.

But if you require anything beyond that, it must be settled before the regular assembly.

There we found a ship bound for Phoenicia, and we went on board and sailed on it.

He came to see us and took Paul's belt and bound his own feet and hands with it, and said, "This is what the holy Spirit says: 'The Jews at Jerusalem will bind the man who owns this belt like this, and will hand him over to the heathen!' "

Then Paul answered, "What do you mean by crying and breaking my heart? I am ready not only to be bound at Jerusalem but to die there for the sake of the Lord Jesus."

Then the colonel came up and seized him, and ordered him to be bound with two chains, and then inquired who he was and what he had been doing.

I persecuted this Way even to the death, and bound both men and women and put them in prison,

as the high priest and the whole council will bear me witness. In fact, they gave me letters to the brothers in Damascus and I went there to bind those who were there and bring them back to Jerusalem to be punished.

Then the men who had been going to examine him immediately left him, and the colonel himself was alarmed to find that Paul was a Roman citizen and that he had had him bound.

We went on board an Adramyttian ship bound for the ports of Asia, and put to sea. We had a Macedonian from Thessalonica, named Aristarchus, with us.

There the officer found an Alexandrian ship bound for Italy, and put us on board her.