From there we put out to sea and sailed under the lee of Cyprus because the winds were against us.

Of course, I myself was convinced that it was necessary to do many things hostile to the name of Jesus the Nazarene.

After three days Paul called the local Jewish leaders together. When they had assembled, he said to them, “Brothers, although I had done nothing against our people or the customs of our ancestors, from Jerusalem I was handed over as a prisoner to the Romans.