But if you want anything in addition, it will have to be settled in a legal assembly.

(Now there were many lamps in the upstairs room where we were meeting.)

From Miletus he sent a message to Ephesus, telling the elders of the church to come to him.

For I did not hold back from announcing to you the whole purpose of God.

When he had said these things, he knelt down with them all and prayed.

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

because you will be his witness to all people of what you have seen and heard.

The Jews also joined in the verbal attack, claiming that these things were true.

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

Now three days after Festus arrived in the province, he went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea.

For this reason the Jews seized me in the temple courts and were trying to kill me.

Agrippa said to Paul, “In such a short time are you persuading me to become a Christian?”

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

From Paul, a slave of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God.

This gospel he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy scriptures,

Thus I am eager also to preach the gospel to you who are in Rome.

But if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the law and boast of your relationship to God

and if you are convinced that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,

for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.

Or is God the God of the Jews only? Is he not the God of the Gentiles too? Yes, of the Gentiles too!