So they set out, being accompanied for a short distance by some other members of the Church; and as they passed through Phoenicia and Samaria, they told the whole story of the conversion of the Gentiles and inspired all the brethren with great joy.

A short time after this, Agrippa the king and Bernice came to Caesarea to pay a complimentary visit to Festus;

So they hove the lead and found twenty fathoms of water; and after a short time they hove again and found fifteen fathoms.

Upon their arrival he said to them, "You Elders well know, from the first day of my setting foot in the province of Asia, the kind of life I lived among you the whole time,

"The kind of life I have lived from my youth upwards, as exemplified in my early days among my nation and in Jerusalem, is known to all the Jews.

After this Paul lived for fully two years in a hired house of his own, receiving all who came to see him.