because you are especially<n id="1" /> familiar with all the customs and controversial issues<n id="2" /> of the Jews. Therefore I ask<n id="3" /> you to listen to me patiently.

But when the Jews objected,<n id="1" /> I was forced to appeal to Caesar<n id="2" /> &#8211; not that I had some charge to bring<n id="3" /> against my own people.<n id="4" />

Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya near Cyrene,<n id="1" /> and visitors from Rome,<n id="2" />

But Saul became more and more capable,<n id="1" /> and was causing consternation<n id="2" /> among the Jews who lived in Damascus by proving<n id="3" /> that Jesus<n id="4" /> is the Christ.<n id="5" />p>

We<n id="1" /> are witnesses of all the things he did both in Judea<n id="2" /> and in Jerusalem.<n id="3" /> They<n id="4" /> killed him by hanging him on a tree,<n id="5" />

When he saw that this pleased the Jews,<n id="1" /> he proceeded to arrest Peter too. (This took place during the feast of Unleavened Bread.)<n id="2" />

When<n id="1" /> they arrived<n id="2" /> in Salamis,<n id="3" /> they began to proclaim<n id="4" /> the word of God in the Jewish synagogues.<n id="5" /> (Now they also had John<n id="6" /> as their assistant.)<n id="7" />

But the population<n id="1" /> of the city was divided; some<n id="2" /> sided with the Jews, and some with the apostles.

<p class="bodytext">But Jews came from Antioch<n id="1" /> and Iconium,<n id="2" /> and after winning<n id="3" /> the crowds over, they stoned<n id="4" /> Paul and dragged him out of the city, presuming him to be dead.

<t /><p class="bodytext">He also came to Derbe<n id="1" /> and to Lystra.<n id="2" /> A disciple<n id="3" /> named Timothy was there, the son of a Jewish woman who was a believer,<n id="4" /> but whose father was a Greek.<n id="5" />

When<n id="1" /> they had brought them<n id="2" /> before the magistrates, they said, &#8220;These men are throwing our city into confusion.<n id="3" /> They are<n id="4" /> Jews

<t /><p class="bodytext">The brothers sent Paul and Silas off to Berea<n id="1" /> at once, during the night. When they arrived,<n id="2" /> they went to the Jewish synagogue.<n id="3" />

So he was addressing<n id="1" /> the Jews and the God-fearing Gentiles<n id="2" /> in the synagogue,<n id="3" /> and in the marketplace every day<n id="4" /> those who happened to be there.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now while Gallio<n id="1" /> was proconsul<n id="2" /> of Achaia,<n id="3" /> the Jews attacked Paul together<n id="4" /> and brought him before the judgment seat,<n id="5" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now a Jew named Apollos, a native of Alexandria, arrived in Ephesus.<n id="1" /> He was an eloquent speaker,<n id="2" /> well-versed<n id="3" /> in the scriptures.

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>

Some of the crowd concluded<n id="1" /> it was about<n id="2" /> Alexander because the Jews had pushed him to the front.<n id="3" /> Alexander, gesturing<n id="4" /> with his hand, was wanting to make a defense<n id="5" /> before the public assembly.<n id="6" />

But when they recognized<n id="1" /> that he was a Jew, they all shouted in unison,<n id="2" /> &#8220;Great is Artemis<n id="3" /> of the Ephesians!&#8221; for about two hours.<n id="4" />

where he stayed<n id="1" /> for three months. Because the Jews had made<n id="2" /> a plot<n id="3" /> against him as he was intending<n id="4" /> to sail<n id="5" /> for Syria, he decided<n id="6" /> to return through Macedonia.<n id="7" />

serving the Lord with all humility<n id="1" /> and with tears, and with the trials that happened to me because of the plots<n id="2" /> of the Jews.