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

For you are bringing some surprising things to our ears, so we want to know what they mean.”

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

I know that after I am gone fierce wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock.

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

I persecuted this Way even to the point of death, tying up both men and women and putting them in prison,

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

Since I wanted to know what charge they were accusing him of, I brought him down to their council.

So the soldiers, in accordance with their orders, took Paul and brought him to Antipatris during the night.

When the horsemen came to Caesarea and delivered the letter to the governor, they also presented Paul to him.

Requesting him to do them a favor against Paul, they urged Festus to summon him to Jerusalem, planning an ambush to kill him along the way.

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

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

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

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

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

When we entered Rome, Paul was allowed to live by himself, with the soldier who was guarding him.

Through him we have received grace and our apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith among all the Gentiles on behalf of his name.