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

There the centurion found a ship from Alexandria sailing for Italy, and he put us aboard it.

As we ran under the lee of a small island called Cauda, we were able with difficulty to get the ship’s boat under control.

And now I advise you to keep up your courage, for there will be no loss of life among you, but only the ship will be lost.

After he said this, Paul took bread and gave thanks to God in front of them all, broke it, and began to eat.

After this had happened, many of the people on the island who were sick also came and were healed.

They also bestowed many honors, and when we were preparing to sail, they gave us all the supplies we needed.

There we found some brothers and were invited to stay with them seven days. And in this way we came to Rome.

When they had heard my case, they wanted to release me, because there was no basis for a death sentence against me.

But when the Jews objected, I was forced to appeal to Caesar – not that I had some charge to bring against my own people.

proclaiming the kingdom of God and teaching about the Lord Jesus Christ with complete boldness and without restriction.

‘And in the last days it will be,’ God says, ‘that I will pour out my Spirit on all people, and your sons and your daughters will prophesy, and your young men will see visions, and your old men will dream dreams.

Both Paul and Barnabas replied courageously, “It was necessary to speak the word of God to you first. Since you reject it and do not consider yourselves worthy of eternal life, we are turning to the Gentiles.

“Men, why are you doing these things? We too are men, with human natures just like you! We are proclaiming the good news to you, so that you should turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and everything that is in them.

Also some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers were conversing with him, and some were asking, “What does this foolish babbler want to say?” Others said, “He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign gods.” (They said this because he was proclaiming the good news about Jesus and the resurrection.)

There is danger not only that this business of ours will come into disrepute, but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis will be regarded as nothing, and she whom all the province of Asia and the world worship will suffer the loss of her greatness.”

“I am a Jew, born in Tarsus in Cilicia, but brought up in this city, educated with strictness under Gamaliel according to the law of our ancestors, and was zealous for God just as all of you are today.

So do not let them persuade you to do this, because more than forty of them are lying in ambush for him. They have bound themselves with an oath not to eat or drink anything until they have killed him, and now they are ready, waiting for you to agree to their request.”

Then Festus said, “King Agrippa, and all you who are present here with us, you see this man about whom the entire Jewish populace petitioned me both in Jerusalem and here, shouting loudly that he ought not to live any longer.

He told them, “You are not permitted to know the times or periods that the Father has set by his own authority.