On hearing this they desisted and glorified God, saying, "So God has actually allowed the Gentiles to repent and live!"

for it is in him that we live and move and exist ??as some of your own poets have said, 'We too belong to His race.'

Now, they have heard that you teach all Jews who live among Gentiles to break away from Moses and not to circumcise their children, nor to follow the old customs.

Till he said that, they had listened to him. But at that they shouted, "Away with such a creature from the earth! He is not fit to live!"

"King Agrippa and all here present," said Festus, "you see before you a man of whom the entire body of the Jews at Jerusalem and also here have complained to me. They loudly insist he ought not to live any longer.

When the natives saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to each other, "This man must be a murderer! He has escaped the sea, but Justice will not let him live."

When we did reach Rome, Paul got permission to live by himself, with a soldier to guard him.