But we, going ahead to the ship, set sail for Assos, intending from there to take Paul on board; for so he had arranged it, intending himself to go by land.

For Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus so that he would not have to spend time in Asia; for he was hurrying to be in Jerusalem, if possible, on the day of Pentecost.

And when they had come to him, he said to them,“You yourselves know, from the first day that I set foot in Asia, how I was with you the whole time,

When he had said these things, he knelt down and prayed with them all.

grieving especially over the word which he had spoken, that they would not see his face again. And they were accompanying him to the ship.

When we had parted from them and had set sail, we ran a straight course to Cos and the next day to Rhodes and from there to Patara;

When we had finished the voyage from Tyre, we arrived at Ptolemais, and after greeting the brethren, we stayed with them for a day.

Now this man had four virgin daughters who were prophetesses.

When we had heard this, we as well as the local residents began begging him not to go up to Jerusalem.

After he had greeted them, he began to relate one by one the things which God had done among the Gentiles through his ministry.

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

Then the commander came up and took hold of him, and ordered him to be bound with two chains; and he began asking who he was and what he had done.

When he had given him permission, Paul, standing on the stairs, motioned to the people with his hand; and when there was a great hush, he spoke to them in the Hebrew dialect, saying,

Therefore those who were about to examine him immediately let go of him; and the commander also was afraid when he found out that he was a Roman, and because he had put him in chains.

But on the next day, wishing to know for certain why he had been accused by the Jews, he released him and ordered the chief priests and all the Council to assemble, and brought Paul down and set him before them.

When it was day, the Jews formed a conspiracy and bound themselves under an oath, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.

When these had come to Caesarea and delivered the letter to the governor, they also presented Paul to him.

When he had read it, he asked from what province he was, and when he learned that he was from Cilicia,

After Paul had been summoned, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying to the governor,“Since we have through you attained much peace, and since by your providence reforms are being carried out for this nation,

When the governor had nodded for him to speak, Paul responded:“Knowing that for many years you have been a judge to this nation, I cheerfully make my defense,

But after two years had passed, Felix was succeeded by Porcius Festus, and wishing to do the Jews a favor, Felix left Paul imprisoned.

After he had spent not more than eight or ten days among them, he went down to Caesarea, and on the next day he took his seat on the tribunal and ordered Paul to be brought.

After Paul arrived, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around him, bringing many and serious charges against him which they could not prove,

Then when Festus had conferred with his council, he answered, “You have appealed to Caesar, to Caesar you shall go.”

Now when several days had elapsed, King Agrippa and Bernice arrived at Caesarea and paid their respects to Festus.

So after they had assembled here, I did not delay, but on the next day took my seat on the tribunal and ordered the man to be brought before me.

but they simply had some points of disagreement with him about their own religion and about a dead man, Jesus, whom Paul asserted to be alive.

But I found that he had committed nothing worthy of death; and since he himself appealed to the Emperor, I decided to send him.

“So then, I thought to myself that I had to do many things hostile to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.

And when we had all fallen to the ground, I heard a voice saying to me in the Hebrew dialect, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.’

and when they had gone aside, they began talking to one another, saying, “This man is not doing anything worthy of death or imprisonment.”

And Agrippa said to Festus, “This man might have been set free if he had not appealed to Caesar.”

When we had sailed through the sea along the coast of Cilicia and Pamphylia, we landed at Myra in Lycia.

When we had sailed slowly for a good many days, and with difficulty had arrived off Cnidus, since the wind did not permit us to go farther, we sailed under the shelter of Crete, off Salmone;

When considerable time had passed and the voyage was now dangerous, since even the fast was already over, Paul began to admonish them,

When a moderate south wind came up, supposing that they had attained their purpose, they weighed anchor and began sailing along Crete, close inshore.

After they had hoisted it up, they used supporting cables in undergirding the ship; and fearing that they might run aground on the shallows of Syrtis, they let down the sea anchor and in this way let themselves be driven along.

When they had gone a long time without food, then Paul stood up in their midst and said, “Men, you ought to have followed my advice and not to have set sail from Crete and incurred this damage and loss.

But as the sailors were trying to escape from the ship and had let down the ship’s boat into the sea, on the pretense of intending to lay out anchors from the bow,

When they had eaten enough, they began to lighten the ship by throwing out the wheat into the sea.

When they had been brought safely through, then we found out that the island was called Malta.

The natives showed us extraordinary kindness; for because of the rain that had set in and because of the cold, they kindled a fire and received us all.

But when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks and laid them on the fire, a viper came out because of the heat and fastened itself on his hand.

But they were expecting that he was about to swell up or suddenly fall down dead. But after they had waited a long time and had seen nothing unusual happen to him, they changed their minds and began to say that he was a god.

And it happened that the father of Publius was lying in bed afflicted with recurrent fever and dysentery; and Paul went in to see him and after he had prayed, he laid his hands on him and healed him.

After this had happened, the rest of the people on the island who had diseases were coming to him and getting cured.

At the end of three months we set sail on an Alexandrian ship which had wintered at the island, and which had the Twin Brothers for its figurehead.

After three days Paul called together those who were the leading men of the Jews, and when they came together, he began saying to them, “Brethren, though I had done nothing against our people or the customs of our fathers, yet I was delivered as a prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans.

And when they had examined me, they were willing to release me because there was no ground for putting me to death.

But when the Jews objected, I was forced to appeal to Caesar, not that I had any accusation against my nation.

When they had set a day for Paul, they came to him at his lodging in large numbers; and he was explaining to them by solemnly testifying about the kingdom of God and trying to persuade them concerning Jesus, from both the Law of Moses and from the Prophets, from morning until evening.

And when they did not agree with one another, they began leaving after Paul had spoken one parting word, “The Holy Spirit rightly spoke through Isaiah the prophet to your fathers,

[When he had spoken these words, the Jews departed, having a great dispute among themselves.]

and he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while uncircumcised, so that he might be the father of all who believe without being circumcised, that righteousness might be credited to them,

and the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who also follow in the steps of the faith of our father Abraham which he had while uncircumcised.

In hope against hope he believed, so that he might become a father of many nations according to that which had been spoken, “So shall your descendants be.”

and being fully assured that what God had promised, He was able also to perform.

Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who had not sinned in the likeness of the offense of Adam, who is a type of Him who was to come.

What shall we say then? Is the Law sin? May it never be! On the contrary, I would not have come to know sin except through the Law; for I would not have known about coveting if the Law had not said, “You shall not covet.”

And not only this, but there was Rebekah also, when she had conceived twins by one man, our father Isaac;

for though the twins were not yet born and had not done anything good or bad, so that God’s purpose according to His choice would stand, not because of works but because of Him who calls,

And just as Isaiah foretold,
“Unless the Lord of Sabaoth had left to us a posterity,
We would have become like Sodom, and would have resembled Gomorrah.”

but as it is written,
“They who had no news of Him shall see,
And they who have not heard shall understand.”

but now, with no further place for me in these regions, and since I have had for many years a longing to come to you

the wisdom which none of the rulers of this age has understood; for if they had understood it they would not have crucified the Lord of glory;

For who regards you as superior? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?

You are already filled, you have already become rich, you have become kings without us; and indeed, I wish that you had become kings so that we also might reign with you.

You have become arrogant and have not mourned instead, so that the one who had done this deed would be removed from your midst.

But this I say, brethren, the time has been shortened, so that from now on those who have wives should be as though they had none;

and when He had given thanks, He broke it and said, “This is My body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of Me.”

indeed, we had the sentence of death within ourselves so that we would not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead;

I had no rest for my spirit, not finding Titus my brother; but taking my leave of them, I went on to Macedonia.

For indeed what had glory, in this case has no glory because of the glory that surpasses it.

For even when we came into Macedonia our flesh had no rest, but we were afflicted on every side: conflicts without, fears within.

and this, not as we had expected, but they first gave themselves to the Lord and to us by the will of God.

So we urged Titus that as he had previously made a beginning, so he would also complete in you this gracious work as well.

as it is written, “He who gathered much did not have too much, and he who gathered little had no lack.”

But when God, who had set me apart even from my mother’s womb and called me through His grace, was pleased

It was because of a revelation that I went up; and I submitted to them the gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but I did so in private to those who were of reputation, for fear that I might be running, or had run, in vain.

But it was because of the false brethren secretly brought in, who had sneaked in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, in order to bring us into bondage.

But on the contrary, seeing that I had been entrusted with the gospel to the uncircumcised, just as Peter had been to the circumcised

and recognizing the grace that had been given to me, James and Cephas and John, who were reputed to be pillars, gave to me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, so that we might go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised.

Why the Law then? It was added because of transgressions, having been ordained through angels by the agency of a mediator, until the seed would come to whom the promise had been made.

Is the Law then contrary to the promises of God? May it never be! For if a law had been given which was able to impart life, then righteousness would indeed have been based on law.

Where then is that sense of blessing you had? For I bear you witness that, if possible, you would have plucked out your eyes and given them to me.

For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the bondwoman and one by the free woman.

(Now this expression, “He ascended,” what does it mean except that He also had descended into the lower parts of the earth?

because he was longing for you all and was distressed because you had heard that he was sick.

For indeed he was sick to the point of death, but God had mercy on him, and not on him only but also on me, so that I would not have sorrow upon sorrow.

When He had disarmed the rulers and authorities, He made a public display of them, having triumphed over them through Him.

For they themselves report about us what kind of a reception we had with you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve a living and true God,

but after we had already suffered and been mistreated in Philippi, as you know, we had the boldness in our God to speak to you the gospel of God amid much opposition.

Having so fond an affection for you, we were well-pleased to impart to you not only the gospel of God but also our own lives, because you had become very dear to us.

And He is the radiance of His glory and the exact representation of His nature, and upholds all things by the word of His power. When He had made purification of sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,

Therefore, since the children share in flesh and blood, He Himself likewise also partook of the same, that through death He might render powerless him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,

Therefore, He had to be made like His brethren in all things, so that He might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people.

For who provoked Him when they had heard? Indeed, did not all those who came out of Egypt led by Moses?

For indeed we have had good news preached to us, just as they also; but the word they heard did not profit them, because it was not united by faith in those who heard.

Therefore, since it remains for some to enter it, and those who formerly had good news preached to them failed to enter because of disobedience,

For if Joshua had given them rest, He would not have spoken of another day after that.