whom Jason hath entertained; and they are all acting in opposition to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus.

And they alarmed the multitude and the city magistrates when they heard these things.

And having taken security of Jason and of the others, they let them go.

These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness, and searched the Scriptures daily, whether these things were so.

But when the Jews of Thessalonica knew that at Beroea, too, the word of God was preached by Paul, they came hither also, and stirred up the multitudes.

And they who conducted Paul brought him to Athens; and having received a commandment to Silas and Timothy to come to him as soon as possible, they departed.

And they took him and brought him to Mars hill, saying, May we know what this new doctrine is, of which thou speakest?

that they should seek God, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he is not far from every one of us.

And when they heard of a resurrection of the dead, some mocked; but ethers said, We will hear thee again about this matter.

and because he was of the same trade, he abode with them, and worked; for they were tentmakers by trade.

And when they set themselves against him, and reviled, he shook his garments, and said to them, Your blood be upon your own heads! I am clean; from this time I will go to the gentiles.

But they all laid hold of Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgmentseat; and Gallio cared for none of these things.

And they came to Ephesus, and he left them there; but he himself entered the synagogue, and reasoned with the Jews.

And when they asked him to stay longer, he consented not;

he said to them, Did ye receive the Holy Spirit when ye believed? And they said to him, No, we did not even hear whether there is a Holy Spirit.

And he said, Into what then were ye baptized? And they said, Into Johns baptism.

Then said Paul, John indeed baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying to the people, that they should believe on him that was coming after him; that is, on Jesus.

And when they heard this, they were baptized into the name of the Lord Jesus.

And when Paul bad laid his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came upon them, and they spoke with tongues, and prophesied.

And the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, and overcame them both, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.

Many also of those who had practised magical arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men; and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.

And hearing this they became full of wrath, and kept crying out, saying, Great is Diana of the Ephesians!

And the city was filled with confusion; and they rushed with one accord into the theatre, having seized Gaius and Aristarchus, men of Macedonia, Pauls companions in travel.

Some therefore were crying one thing, and some another; for the assembly was in confusion, and the greater part knew not wherefore they had come together.

And they brought forward Alexander out of the multitude, the Jews putting him forward; and Alexander beckoned with his hand, desiring to make his defence to the people.

But when they knew that he was a Jew, all with one voice for about two hours cried out, Great is Diana of the Ephesians!

And they brought the young man alive, and were not a little comforted.

And when they had come to him, he said to them: Ye yourselves know, from the first day that I came into Asia, after what manner I have been with you the whole time,

And they all wept sorely, and fell on Pauls neck, and kissed him;

sorrowing most of all for the word which he had spoken, that they were to see his face no more. And they accompanied him to the ship.

And having found out the disciples, we remained there seven days; and they told Paul, through the Spirit, not to go up to Jerusalem.

And when we had completed the days, we departed, and went our way, they all accompanying us, with wives and children, till we were out of the city; and having kneeled down on the shore and prayed,

we took leave of each other, and went on board the ship; and they returned home.

But when we heard this, both we, and they of that place, besought him not to go to Jerusalem.

And they on hearing it glorified God; and said to him, Thou seest, brother, how many thousands of believers there are among the Jews, and they are all zealots for the Law.

But they have been informed concerning thee, that thou teachest all the Jews who are among the gentiles to forsake Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children, nor to walk after the customs.

What then is to be done? The multitude will necessarily come together; for they will hear that thou hast come.

These take, and purify thyself with them, and pay the expenses for them, that they may shave their heads; and all will know that those things of which they have been informed concerning thee are nothing, but that thou thyself also walkest in observance of the Law.

But concerning the gentile believers, we have written to them and decided that they should observe no such thing, save only to abstain from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from what hath been strangled, and from fornication.

For they had before seen with him in the city Trophimus, the Ephesian, whom they supposed that Paul had brought into the temple.

And the whole city was in motion, and the people ran together; and they laid hold of Paul and dragged him out of the temple; and forthwith the doors were shut.

And while they were endeavoring to kill him, tidings came up to the chief captain of the band, that all Jerusalem was in an uproar;

who immediately took soldiers and centurions, and ran down to them. And seeing the chief captain and the soldiers, they left off beating Paul.

And on hearing him speak to them in the Hebrew tongue, they kept the more silence. And he saith:

as also the highpriest beareth me witness, and all the elderhood; from whom I received letters to the brethren, and was on my way to Damascus to bring those also that were there, bound, to Jerusalem, that they might be punished.

And they that were with me saw indeed the light, and were afraid; but the voice of him that spoke to me they did not hear.

and saw him saying to me, Make haste, and go quickly out of Jerusalem; for they will not receive thy testimony concerning me.

And I said, Lord, they know that I imprisoned, and beat in every synagogue, those that believed in thee;

And they listened to him as far as this word, and then lifted up their voices, and said, Away with such a fellow from the earth! for it was not fit that he should live.

And as they were crying out, and shaking their garments, and throwing dust into the air,

the chief captain ordered him to be brought into the castle, and bade that he should be examined by scourging; that he might ascertain for what cause they were thus crying out against him.

But when they had stretched him out with the cords, Paul said to the centurion that stood by, Is it lawful for you to scourge a man that is a Roman, and uncondemned?

They therefore who were about to examine him left him immediately. And the chief captain also was alarmed when he knew that he was a Roman, and because he had bound him.

And they that stood by said, Dost thou revile Gods highpriest?

And when it was day, the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.

And they came to the chief priests and the elders, and said, We have bound ourselves under a great curse, to taste nothing until we have killed Paul.

But do not thou yield to them; for there lie in wait for him more than forty men of them, who have bound themselves with an oath neither to eat nor drink till they have killed him; and they are now ready, looking for the promise from thee.

and provide beasts, whereon they may set Paul, and carry him safe to Felix the governor.

And wishing to know the crime of which they accused him, I brought him down to their council;

But on the morrow they left the horsemen to go on with him, and returned to the castle.

And they, when they had come to Caesarea, and delivered the letter to the governor, presented Paul also before him.

And after five days Ananias, the highpriest, came down with the elders and a certain orator named Tertullus; and they brought a complaint before the governor against Paul.

And neither in the temple did they find me disputing with any one, or stirring up a tumult of the people, nor in the synagogues, nor in the city;

nor can they prove the things of which they now accuse me.

But this I acknowledge to thee, that according to the way [of belief] which they call a sect, so do I worship the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the Law and by the Prophets;

having a hope in God, which they themselves also entertain, that there will be a resurrection both of the righteous and the unrighteous.

in doing which they found me purified in the temple, not with a crowd nor with tumult; but certain Jews from Asia [caused it],

who ought to be here before thee, and make their charge, if they had aught against me.

Or, let these men themselves say what wrongdoing they found in me when I stood before the council,

And when he had come, the Jews who came down from Jerusalem stood around, bringing many and heavy charges which they could not prove;

If indeed I am an offender, and have done anything deserving death, I refuse not to die; but if there be nothing in the charges which they bring against me, no man can give me up to them. I appeal to Caesar.

And while they were making a stay of some days there, Festus laid the case of Paul before the king, saying, There is a certain man left in bonds by Felix,

When therefore they had come together here, without any delay I sat on the judgmentseat on the day after, and ordered the man to be brought forward.

and they know, if they are willing to testify, that from the first, according to the strictest sect of our religion, I lived a Pharisee.

Which I also did in Jerusalem; and many of the saints did I myself shut up in prisons, having received authority from the chief priests; and when they were put to death, I gave my voice against them.

to open their eyes that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and an inheritance among the sanctified, by faith in me.

but first to those in Damascus, and Jerusalem, and to all the country of Judaea, and then to the gentiles, I proclaimed that they should repent and turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance.

and going aside they talked with each other, saying, This man is doing nothing deserving death, or bonds.

And when it was determined that we should sail for Italy, they delivered Paul and certain other prisoners to a centurion named Julius, of the Augustan band.

And as the harbor was not well situated for wintering, the greater part advised to sail thence also, if by any means they might reach Phoenix, a harbor of Crete, looking toward the southwest and northwest, and there winter.

And when a south wind blew gently, supposing that they had obtained their purpose, they weighed anchor, and coasted along close by Crete.

which when they had taken up, they used helps, undergirding the ship; and fearing lest they should run into the Syrtis, they lowered the sail and so were driven.

And as we were violently tempesttossed, the next day they began to lighten the vessel;

And when the fourteenth night had come on, as we were driven onward in the Adriatic sea, about midnight the sailors suspected that they were near some country;

and sounding, they found twenty fathoms; and having gone a little further and sounded again, they found fifteen fathoms;

then fearing lest we should fall upon rocks, they cast four anchors out of the stern, and wished for day.

And as the sailors were seeking means to escape from the ship, when they had lowered the boat into the sea, under the pretence that they were about to carry out anchors from the foreship,

Then were they all of good cheer, and they also took food.

And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, casting out the grain into the sea.

And when it was day, they did not know the land; but they observed a certain creek having a beach, into which they determined, if possible, to run the ship.

And cutting away the anchors, they left them in the sea, and at the same time unfastening the rudderbands, and hoisting the foresail to the wind, they made toward the beach.

And falling into a place having the sea on both sides, they ran the ship aground; and the prow stuck fast, and remained immovable, but the stern was breaking to pieces with the violence [of the waves].

and the rest, some on boards, and others on something from the ship. And in this way it came to pass, that they all escaped safe to land.

And the barbarians showed us no little kindness; for they kindled a fire, and received us all, because of the rain which had come on, and because of the cold.

And when the barbarians saw the animal hanging from his hand, they said to one another, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom though he hath escaped the sea, Justice hath not permitted to live.

But they were looking for his becoming swollen, or suddenly falling down dead. But after looking a great while, and seeing no harm come to him they changed their minds, and said that he was a god.

And it came to pass that after three days he called together the chief men of the Jews, and when they had met he said to them, Brethren, I, though I had done nothing against the people, or the customs of our fathers, was delivered up a prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans;

who, when they had examined me, wished to release me, because I had done nothing deserving death.

And they said to him, We neither received letters from Judea concerning thee, nor did any one of the brethren that came report or speak any evil of thee.

And when they had appointed him a day, many came to him at his lodging; to whom he expounded, and earnestly testified, the kingdom of God, endeavoring to persuade them concerning Jesus both from the Law of Moses, and from the Prophets, from morning till evening.