So he took him to the colonel, and said, "The prisoner Paul called me to him and asked me to bring this young man to you, as he has something to say to you."

For it seems to me absurd to send a prisoner on, without stating the charges against him."

Three days later, he invited the leading Jews to come to see him, and when they came he said to them, "Brothers, I have done nothing against our people, or the customs of our forefathers, yet I was turned over to the Romans as a prisoner at Jerusalem.

Saul's fellow-travelers stood speechless, for they heard the voice but could not see anyone.

"This fellow," they said, "is trying to induce people to worship God in ways that are against the law."

If Demetrius and his fellow-craftsmen have a charge to bring against anyone, there are the courts and the governors; let them take legal action.

when on the road at noon, your Majesty, I saw a light from heaven brighter than the sun flash around me and my fellow-travelers.