except that the Holy Spirit warns me in town after town that imprisonment and persecutions are waiting for me.

Even from among your own group men will arise, teaching perversions of the truth to draw the disciples away after them.

Therefore be alert, remembering that night and day for three years I did not stop warning each one of you with tears.

You yourselves know that these hands of mine provided for my needs and the needs of those who were with me.

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.

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

Then I fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to me, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?’

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

He ordered the centurion to guard Paul, but to let him have some freedom, and not to prevent any of his friends from meeting his needs.

After several days had passed, King Agrippa and Bernice arrived at Caesarea to pay their respects to Festus.

Agrippa said to Festus, “I would also like to hear the man myself.” “Tomorrow,” he replied, “you will hear him.”

For it seems unreasonable to me to send a prisoner without clearly indicating the charges against him.”

because you are especially familiar with all the customs and controversial issues of the Jews. Therefore I ask you to listen to me patiently.

And now I stand here on trial because of my hope in the promise made by God to our ancestors,

I will rescue you from your own people and from the Gentiles, to whom I am sending you

But Paul replied, “I have not lost my mind, most excellent Festus, but am speaking true and rational words.

and as they were leaving they said to one another, “This man is not doing anything deserving death or imprisonment.”

After we had sailed across the open sea off Cilicia and Pamphylia, we put in at Myra in Lycia.