Paul's escort brought him as far as Athens and left with instructions that Silas and Timotheus were to join him as soon as possible.

In the window sat a young man called Eutychus, and as Paul's address went on and on, he got overcome with drowsiness, went fast asleep, and fell from the third storey. He was picked up a corpse,

He came to us, took Paul's girdle and bound his own feet and hands, saying, "Here is the word of the holy Spirit: 'So shall the Jews bind the owner of this girdle at Jerusalem and hand him over to the Gentiles'."

Now Paul's nephew heard about their treacherous ambush; so he got admission to the barracks and told Paul.

Paul's defence was, "I have committed no offence against the Law of the Jews, against the temple, or against Caesar."

As they were spending several days there, Festus laid Paul's case before the king. "There is a man," he said, "who was left in prison by Felix.

Has Christ been parcelled out? Was it Paul who was crucified for you? Was it in Paul's name that you were baptized?

My opponent says, 'Paul's letters are weighty and telling, but his personality is weak and his delivery is beneath contempt.'

The salutation is in my own hand, Paul's; that is a mark in every letter of mine. This is how I write.