and Jason has welcomed them as guests! They are all acting against Caesar’s decrees, saying there is another king named Jesus!”

Paul said in his defense, “I have committed no offense against the Jewish law or against the temple or against Caesar.”

The local inhabitants showed us extraordinary kindness, for they built a fire and welcomed us all because it had started to rain and was cold.

After he had said this, while they were watching, he was lifted up and a cloud hid him from their sight.

But the things God foretold long ago through all the prophets – that his Christ would suffer – he has fulfilled in this way.

But Peter said to him, “May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could acquire God’s gift with money!

Then when the proconsul saw what had happened, he believed, because he was greatly astounded at the teaching about the Lord.

testifying to both Jews and Greeks about repentance toward God and faith in our Lord Jesus.

Because he could not be persuaded, we said no more except, “The Lord’s will be done.”

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

But the Jews became jealous, and gathering together some worthless men from the rabble in the marketplace, they formed a mob and set the city in an uproar. They attacked Jason’s house, trying to find Paul and Silas to bring them out to the assembly.

While he was with them, he declared, “Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait there for what my Father promised, which you heard about from me.

And a man lame from birth was being carried up, who was placed at the temple gate called “the Beautiful Gate” every day so he could beg for money from those going into the temple courts.

For we have heard him saying that Jesus the Nazarene will destroy this place and change the customs that Moses handed down to us.”

This is the Moses who said to the Israelites, ‘God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers.’

but that we should write them a letter telling them to abstain from things defiled by idols and from sexual immorality and from what has been strangled and from blood.

So they took Paul and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, “May we know what this new teaching is that you are proclaiming?

especially saddened by what he had said, that they were not going to see him again. Then they accompanied him to the ship.

After we sighted Cyprus and left it behind on our port side, we sailed on to Syria and put in at Tyre, because the ship was to unload its cargo there.

I answered, ‘Who are you, Lord?’ He said to me, ‘I am Jesus the Nazarene, whom you are persecuting.’