And the news of this spread throughout that region.

So the news about him spread quickly throughout all the region around Galilee.

So he went into all of Galilee preaching in their synagogues and casting out demons.

So the soldiers led him into the palace (that is, the governor’s residence) and called together the whole cohort.

Now when it was noon, darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon.

It was now about noon, and darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon,

Great fear gripped the whole church and all who heard about these things.

When they had crossed over the whole island as far as Paphos, they found a magician, a Jewish false prophet named Bar-Jesus,

Paul lived there two whole years in his own rented quarters and welcomed all who came to him,

As it is written, “For your sake we encounter death all day long; we were considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”

When the people there recognized him, they sent word into all the surrounding area, and they brought all their sick to him.

And about five o’clock that afternoon he went out and found others standing around, and said to them, ‘Why are you standing here all day without work?’

Then the governor’s soldiers took Jesus into the governor’s residence and gathered the whole cohort around him.

They ran through that whole region and began to bring the sick on mats to wherever he was rumored to be.

Then a famine occurred throughout Egypt and Canaan, causing great suffering, and our ancestors could not find food.

But about Israel he says, “All day long I held out my hands to this disobedient and stubborn people!”

So a report about him spread throughout Syria. People brought to him all who suffered with various illnesses and afflictions, those who had seizures, paralytics, and those possessed by demons, and he healed them.

“Return to your home, and declare what God has done for you.” So he went away, proclaiming throughout the whole town what Jesus had done for him.

One of them, named Agabus, got up and predicted by the Spirit that a severe famine was about to come over the whole inhabited world. (This took place during the reign of Claudius.)

So that huge dragon – the ancient serpent, the one called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world – was thrown down to the earth, and his angels along with him.