As the time drew near for the fulfillment of the promise which God had made to Abraham, the people increased largely in numbers in Egypt,

Jaffa was near Lydda, and the disciples, having heard that Peter was at Lydda, sent two men with the request that he would come on to them without delay.

He is lodging with a tanner named Simon, who has a house near the sea."

Therefore send to Jaffa, and invite the Simon, who is also known as Peter, to come here. He is lodging in the house of Simon the tanner, near the sea.'

But just as they had tied him up to be scourged, Paul said to the Captain standing near: "Is it legal for you to scourge a Roman citizen, unconvicted?"

At this, the High Priest Ananias ordered the men standing near to strike him on the mouth;

The people standing near said to Paul: "Do you know that you are insulting God's High Priest?"

And with difficulty, by keeping close in shore, we reached a place called 'Fair Havens,' near which was the town of Lasea.

It was now the fourteenth night of the storm, and we were drifting about in the Adriatic Sea, when, about midnight, the sailors began to suspect that they were drawing near land.