When they asked him to stay longer, he would not consent,

While we remained there for a number of days, a prophet named Agabus came down from Judea.

There were more than forty of them who formed this conspiracy.

After several years I came to bring to my people gifts for the poor and to present offerings,

For the man, on whom this miraculous sign of healing had been performed, was over forty years old.

For it seemed best to the Holy Spirit and to us not to place any greater burden on you than these necessary rules:

But so that I may not delay you any further, I beg you to hear us briefly with your customary graciousness.

With many other words he testified and exhorted them saying, “Save yourselves from this perverse generation!”

But to keep this matter from spreading any further among the people, let us warn them to speak no more to anyone in this name.”

and for many days he appeared to those who had accompanied him from Galilee to Jerusalem. These are now his witnesses to the people.

So then some were shouting one thing, some another, for the assembly was in confusion, and most of them did not know why they had met together.

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

When neither sun nor stars appeared for many days and a violent storm continued to batter us, we finally abandoned all hope of being saved.

A young man named Eutychus, who was sitting in the window, was sinking into a deep sleep while Paul continued to speak for a long time. Fast asleep, he fell down from the third story and was picked up dead.

After Festus had stayed not more than eight or ten days among them, he went down to Caesarea, and the next day he sat on the judgment seat and ordered Paul to be brought.

While they were staying there many days, Festus explained Paul’s case to the king to get his opinion, saying, “There is a man left here as a prisoner by Felix.

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.

So do not let them persuade you to do this, because more than forty of them are lying in ambush for him. They have bound themselves with an oath not to eat or drink anything until they have killed him, and now they are ready, waiting for you to agree to their request.”

They set a day to meet with him, and they came to him where he was staying in even greater numbers. From morning until evening he explained things to them, testifying about the kingdom of God and trying to convince them about Jesus from both the law of Moses and the prophets.