But we must<n id="1" /> run aground on some island.&#8221;p>

For you are bringing some surprising things<n id="1" /> to our ears, so we want to know what they<n id="2" /> mean.&#8221;

When<n id="1" /> he saw one of them being hurt unfairly,<n id="2" /> Moses<n id="3" /> came to his defense<n id="4" /> and avenged the person who was mistreated by striking down the Egyptian.

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

Now<n id="1" /> send men to Joppa<n id="2" /> and summon a man named Simon,<n id="3" /> who is called Peter.

When they had crossed over<n id="1" /> the whole island as far as Paphos,<n id="2" /> they found a magician, a Jewish false prophet named Bar-Jesus,<n id="3" />

After he spent<n id="1" /> some time there, Paul left and went through the region of Galatia<n id="2" /> and Phrygia,<n id="3" /> strengthening all the disciples.p>

<p class="bodytext">Now in that city was a man named Simon, who had been practicing magic<n id="1" /> and amazing the people of Samaria, claiming to be someone great.

If then Demetrius and the craftsmen who are with him have a complaint<n id="1" /> against someone, the courts are open<n id="2" /> and there are proconsuls; let them bring charges against one another there.<n id="3" />

They did not find me arguing<n id="1" /> with anyone or stirring up a crowd<n id="2" /> in the temple courts<n id="3" /> or in the synagogues<n id="4" /> or throughout the city,<n id="5" />

Rather they had several points of disagreement<n id="1" /> with him about their own religion<n id="2" /> and about a man named Jesus<n id="3" /> who was dead, whom Paul claimed<n id="4" /> to be alive.

With difficulty we sailed along the coast<n id="1" /> of Crete<n id="2" /> and came to a place called Fair Havens that was near the town of Lasea.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="bodytext">When the fourteenth night had come, while we were being driven<n id="1" /> across the Adriatic Sea,<n id="2" /> about midnight the sailors suspected they were approaching some land.<n id="3" />

For some time ago<n id="1" /> Theudas rose up, claiming to be somebody, and about four hundred men joined him. He<n id="2" /> was killed, and all who followed him were dispersed and nothing came of it.<n id="3" />

Which of the prophets did your ancestors<n id="1" /> not persecute?<n id="2" /> They<n id="3" /> killed those who foretold long ago the coming of the Righteous One,<n id="4" /> whose betrayers and murderers you have now become!<n id="5" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now<n id="1" /> as we were going to the place of prayer, a slave girl met us who had a spirit that enabled her to foretell the future by supernatural means.<n id="2" /> She<n id="3" /> brought her owners<n id="4" /> a great profit by fortune-telling.<n id="5" />

There he<n id="1" /> found<n id="2" /> a Jew named Aquila,<n id="3" /> a native of Pontus,<n id="4" /> who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius<n id="5" /> had ordered all the Jews to depart from<n id="6" /> Rome.<n id="7" /> Paul approached<n id="8" /> them,

I answered them<n id="1" /> that it was not the custom of the Romans to hand over anyone<n id="2" /> before the accused had met his accusers face to face<n id="3" /> and had been given<n id="4" /> an opportunity to make a defense against the accusation.<n id="5" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">When day came, they did not recognize the land, but they noticed<n id="1" /> a bay<n id="2" /> with a beach,<n id="3" /> where they decided to run the ship aground if they could.