And when he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren the children of Israel.

Simeon has declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name.

And some days later Paul said unto Barnabas, Let us go again and visit our brethren in every city where we have preached the word of the Lord, and see how they do.

Who, having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks.

But bade them farewell, saying, I must by all means keep this feast that comes in Jerusalem: but I will return again unto you, if God wills. And he sailed from Ephesus.

Now when much time was spent, and when sailing was now dangerous, because the fast was now already past, Paul admonished them,

And falling into a place where two seas met, they ran the ship aground; and the bow stuck fast, and remained unmovable, but the stern was broken with the violence of the waves.