But we must run aground on some island.”

For you are bringing some surprising things to our ears, so we want to know what they mean.”

When he saw one of them being hurt unfairly, Moses came to his defense and avenged the person who was mistreated by striking down the Egyptian.

He found there a man named Aeneas who had been confined to a mattress for eight years because he was paralyzed.

Now send men to Joppa and summon a man named Simon, who is called Peter.

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

After he spent some time there, Paul left and went through the region of Galatia and Phrygia, strengthening all the disciples.

Now in that city was a man named Simon, who had been practicing magic and amazing the people of Samaria, claiming to be someone great.

If then Demetrius and the craftsmen who are with him have a complaint against someone, the courts are open and there are proconsuls; let them bring charges against one another there.

They did not find me arguing with anyone or stirring up a crowd in the temple courts or in the synagogues or throughout the city,

Rather they had several points of disagreement with him about their own religion and about a man named Jesus who was dead, whom Paul claimed to be alive.

With difficulty we sailed along the coast of Crete and came to a place called Fair Havens that was near the town of Lasea.

When the fourteenth night had come, while we were being driven across the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the sailors suspected they were approaching some land.

For some time ago Theudas rose up, claiming to be somebody, and about four hundred men joined him. He was killed, and all who followed him were dispersed and nothing came of it.

Which of the prophets did your ancestors not persecute? They killed those who foretold long ago the coming of the Righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers you have now become!

Now as we were going to the place of prayer, a slave girl met us who had a spirit that enabled her to foretell the future by supernatural means. She brought her owners a great profit by fortune-telling.

There he found a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had ordered all the Jews to depart from Rome. Paul approached them,

I answered them that it was not the custom of the Romans to hand over anyone before the accused had met his accusers face to face and had been given an opportunity to make a defense against the accusation.

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.