for it is impossible for us not to speak about what we have seen and heard.”

nor can they prove to you the things they are accusing me of doing.

but if it is from God, you will not be able to stop them, or you may even be found fighting against God.” He convinced them,

When you examine him yourself, you will be able to learn from him about all these things we are accusing him of doing.”

Agrippa said to Festus, “This man could have been released if he had not appealed to Caesar.”

When the ship was caught in it and could not head into the wind, we gave way to it and were driven along.

The man replied, “How in the world can I, unless someone guides me?” So he invited Philip to come up and sit with him.

“No one can withhold the water for these people to be baptized, who have received the Holy Spirit just as we did, can he?”

and by this one everyone who believes is justified from everything from which the law of Moses could not justify you.

Now some men came down from Judea and began to teach the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.”

So they took Paul and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, “May we know what this new teaching is that you are proclaiming?

For we are in danger of being charged with rioting today, since there is no cause we can give to explain this disorderly gathering.”

As you can verify for yourself, not more than twelve days ago I went up to Jerusalem to worship.

Paul said to the centurion and the soldiers, “Unless these men stay with the ship, you cannot be saved.”

saying, “What should we do with these men? For it is plain to all who live in Jerusalem that a notable miraculous sign has come about through them, and we cannot deny it.

And now I entrust you to God and to the message of his grace. This message is able to build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified.

But some in the crowd shouted one thing, and others something else, and when the commanding officer was unable to find out the truth because of the disturbance, he ordered Paul to be brought into the barracks.

If then I am in the wrong and have done anything that deserves death, I am not trying to escape dying, but if not one of their charges against me is true, no one can hand me over to them. I appeal to Caesar!”

Because the harbor was not suitable to spend the winter in, the majority decided to put out to sea from there. They hoped that somehow they could reach Phoenix, a harbor of Crete facing southwest and northwest, and spend the winter there.

When day came, they did not recognize the land, but they noticed a bay with a beach, where they decided to run the ship aground if they could.