So the centurion took him and brought him to the commanding officer and said, "The prisoner Paul called me and asked me to bring this young man to you because he has something to tell you."

While they were staying there many days, Festus explained Paul's case to the king to get his opinion, saying, "There is a man left here as a prisoner by Felix.

For it seems unreasonable to me to send a prisoner without clearly indicating the charges against him."

After three days Paul called the local Jewish leaders together. When they had assembled, he said to them, "Brothers, although I had done nothing against our people or the customs of our ancestors, from Jerusalem I was handed over as a prisoner to the Romans.

When they were released, Peter and John went to their fellow believers and reported everything the high priests and the elders had said to them.

But when he was about forty years old, it entered his mind to visit his fellow countrymen the Israelites.