After these days we got ready and started up to Jerusalem.

“Brothers and fathers, listen to my defense that I now make to you.”

Most excellent Felix, we acknowledge this everywhere and in every way with all gratitude.

He even tried to desecrate the temple, so we arrested him.

nor can they prove to you the things they are accusing me of doing.

But there are some Jews from the province of Asia who should be here before you and bring charges, if they have anything against me.

“Therefore, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision,

For this reason the Jews seized me in the temple courts and were trying to kill me.

Do you believe the prophets, King Agrippa? I know that you believe.”

Agrippa said to Paul, “In such a short time are you persuading me to become a Christian?”

From there we put out to sea and sailed under the lee of Cyprus because the winds were against us.

(We were in all two hundred seventy-six persons on the ship.)

After we had safely reached shore, we learned that the island was called Malta.

I am a debtor both to the Greeks and to the barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish.

Thus I am eager also to preach the gospel to you who are in Rome.

For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.

and I died. So I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life brought death!

For I delight in the law of God in my inner being.

So then, brothers and sisters, we are under obligation, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh

For we know that the whole creation groans and suffers together until now.