All this took<n id="1" /> about four hundred fifty years. After this<n id="2" /> he gave them judges until the time of<n id="3" /> Samuel the prophet.

After several years<n id="1" /> I came to bring to my people gifts for the poor<n id="2" /> and to present offerings,<n id="3" />

For the man, on whom this miraculous sign<n id="1" /> of healing had been performed,<n id="2" /> was over forty years old.p>

He found there a man named Aeneas who had been confined to a mattress for eight years because<n id="1" /> he was paralyzed.

But God spoke as follows: &#8216;Your<n id="1" /> <b><i>descendants will be foreignersi>b><n id="2" /> <b><i>in a foreign country, whose citizens will enslave them and mistreat them for four hundred yearsi>b>.<n id="3" />

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;After<n id="1" /> forty years had passed, <i>an angel appeared to him in the deserti><n id="2" /> <i>of Mount Sinai, in the flame of a burning bushi>.<n id="3" />

This man led them out, performing wonders and miraculous signs<n id="1" /> in the land of Egypt,<n id="2" /> at<n id="3" /> the Red Sea, and in the wilderness<n id="4" /> for forty years.

Then they asked for a king, and God gave them Saul son of Kish, a man from the tribe of Benjamin, who ruled<n id="1" /> forty years.

This went on for two years, so that all who lived in the province of Asia,<n id="1" /> both Jews and Greeks, heard the word of the Lord.<n id="2" />p>

But God turned away from them and gave them over<n id="1" /> to worship the host<n id="2" /> of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: &#8216;<b><i>It was not to me that you offered slain animals and sacrificesi>b><n id="3" /> <b><i>forty years in the wilderness, was it,i>b><n id="4" /> <b><i>house of Israel?i>b>

<t /><p class="bodytext">When the governor gestured for him to speak, Paul replied, &#8220;Because I know<n id="1" /> that you have been a judge over this nation for many years, I confidently make my defense.<n id="2" />