They replied, “Believe in the Lord Jesus and you will be saved, you and your household.”

At daybreak the magistrates sent their police officers, saying, “Release those men.”

After they traveled through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue.

So they all seized Sosthenes, the president of the synagogue, and began to beat him in front of the judgment seat. Yet none of these things were of any concern to Gallio.

When they heard this they became enraged and began to shout, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”

After he had gone through those regions and spoken many words of encouragement to the believers there, he came to Greece,

Then Paul went back upstairs, and after he had broken bread and eaten, he talked with them a long time, until dawn. Then he left.

They all began to weep loudly, and hugged Paul and kissed him,

we said farewell to one another. Then we went aboard the ship, and they returned to their own homes.

When we heard this, both we and the local people begged him not to go up to Jerusalem.

The next day Paul went in with us to see James, and all the elders were there.

When he came to the steps, Paul had to be carried by the soldiers because of the violence of the mob,

(When they heard that he was addressing them in Aramaic, they became even quieter.) Then Paul said,

A man named Ananias, a devout man according to the law, well spoken of by all the Jews who live there,

When I returned to Jerusalem and was praying in the temple, I fell into a trance

When he said this, an argument began between the Pharisees and the Sadducees, and the assembly was divided.

(For the Sadducees say there is no resurrection, or angel, or spirit, but the Pharisees acknowledge them all.)

I found he was accused with reference to controversial questions about their law, but no charge against him deserved death or imprisonment.

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

Then Festus replied that Paul was being kept at Caesarea, and he himself intended to go there shortly.