<p class="otpoetry"><b><i>In humiliationi>b><n id="1" /> <i><b>justice was taken from himb>.i><n id="2" />p> <p class="otpoetry"><b><i>Who can describe his posterity?i>b><n id="3" />p> <p class="otpoetry"><b><i>For his life was taken awayi>b><n id="4" /> <i><b>from the earthb>.i>&#8221;<n id="5" />p>

for a crowd of people<n id="1" /> followed them,<n id="2" /> screaming, &#8220;Away with him!&#8221;

When a gentle south wind sprang up, they thought<n id="1" /> they could carry out<n id="2" /> their purpose, so they weighed anchor<n id="3" /> and sailed close along the coast<n id="4" /> of Crete.

After the crew<n id="1" /> had hoisted it aboard,<n id="2" /> they used supports<n id="3" /> to undergird the ship. Fearing they would run aground<n id="4" /> on the Syrtis,<n id="5" /> they lowered the sea anchor,<n id="6" /> thus letting themselves be driven along.

When they heard this, they raised their voices to God with one mind<n id="1" /> and said, &#8220;Master of all,<n id="2" /> you who made the heaven, the earth,<n id="3" /> the sea, and everything that is in them,

A young man named Eutychus, who was sitting in the window,<n id="1" /> was sinking<n id="2" /> into a deep sleep while Paul continued to speak<n id="3" /> for a long time. Fast asleep,<n id="4" /> he fell down from the third story and was picked up dead.

<t /><p class="bodytext">The crowd<n id="1" /> was listening to him until he said this.<n id="2" /> Then<n id="3" /> they raised their voices and shouted,<n id="4" /> &#8220;Away with this man<n id="5" /> from the earth! For he should not be allowed to live!&#8221;<n id="6" />

He came<n id="1" /> to us, took<n id="2" /> Paul&#8217;s belt,<n id="3" /> tied<n id="4" /> his own hands and feet with it,<n id="5" /> and said, &#8220;The Holy Spirit says this: &#8216;This is the way the Jews in Jerusalem will tie up the man whose belt this is, and will hand him over<n id="6" /> to the Gentiles.&#8217;&#8221;