So Paul entered the synagogue and spoke out fearlessly for three months, addressing and convincing them about the kingdom of God.

He gathered these together, along with the workmen in similar trades, and said, “Men, you know that our prosperity comes from this business.

The city was filled with the uproar, and the crowd rushed to the theater together, dragging with them Gaius and Aristarchus, the Macedonians who were Paul’s traveling companions.

When Paul had greeted them, he began to explain in detail what God had done among the Gentiles through his ministry.

Since I could not see because of the brilliance of that light, I came to Damascus led by the hand of those who were with me.

Paul looked directly at the council and said, “Brothers, I have lived my life with a clear conscience before God to this day.”

But when the son of Paul’s sister heard about the ambush, he came and entered the barracks and told Paul.

The commanding officer took him by the hand, withdrew privately, and asked, “What is it that you want to report to me?”

For we have found this man to be a troublemaker, one who stirs up riots among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.

which I was doing when they found me in the temple, ritually purified, without a crowd or a disturbance.

Then Felix, who understood the facts concerning the Way more accurately, adjourned their hearing, saying, “When Lysias the commanding officer comes down, I will decide your case.”

Rather they had several points of disagreement with him about their own religion and about a man named Jesus who was dead, whom Paul claimed to be alive.

When the fourteenth night had come, while we were being driven across the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the sailors suspected they were approaching some land.

But they encountered a patch of crosscurrents and ran the ship aground; the bow stuck fast and could not be moved, but the stern was being broken up by the force of the waves.

Now in the region around that place were fields belonging to the chief official of the island, named Publius, who welcomed us and entertained us hospitably as guests for three days.

So for this reason I have asked to see you and speak with you, for I am bound with this chain because of the hope of Israel.”

But we would like to hear from you what you think, for regarding this sect we know that people everywhere speak against it.”

God publicly displayed him at his death as the mercy seat accessible through faith. This was to demonstrate his righteousness, because God in his forbearance had passed over the sins previously committed.

And he is also the father of the circumcised, who are not only circumcised, but who also walk in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham possessed when he was still uncircumcised.

Without being weak in faith, he considered his own body as dead (because he was about one hundred years old) and the deadness of Sarah’s womb.