But Paul replied,<n id="1" /> &#8220;I have not lost my mind, most excellent Festus,<n id="2" /> but am speaking<n id="3" /> true and rational<n id="4" /> words.

There the centurion<n id="1" /> found<n id="2" /> a ship from Alexandria<n id="3" /> sailing for Italy, and he put us aboard it.

As we ran under the lee of<n id="1" /> a small island called Cauda,<n id="2" /> we were able with difficulty to get the ship&#8217;s boat<n id="3" /> under control.

And now I advise<n id="1" /> you to keep up your courage, for there will be no loss of life among you, but only the ship will be lost.<n id="2" />

After he said this, Paul<n id="1" /> took bread<n id="2" /> and gave thanks to God in front of them all,<n id="3" /> broke<n id="4" /> it, and began to eat.

After this had happened, many of the people on the island who were sick<n id="1" /> also came and were healed.<n id="2" />

They also bestowed many honors,<n id="1" /> and when we were preparing to sail,<n id="2" /> they gave<n id="3" /> us all the supplies we needed.<n id="4" />p>

There<n id="1" /> we found<n id="2" /> some brothers<n id="3" /> and were invited to stay with them seven days. And in this way we came to Rome.<n id="4" />

When<n id="1" /> they had heard my case,<n id="2" /> they wanted to release me,<n id="3" /> because there was no basis for a death sentence<n id="4" /> against me.

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" />

proclaiming the kingdom of God and teaching about the Lord Jesus Christ<n id="1" /> with complete boldness<n id="2" /> and without restriction.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="otpoetry">&#8216;<b><i>Andi>b> in the last days<n id="1" /> <b><i>it will be,i>b>&#8217; <b><i>God says,i>b>p> <p class="otpoetry">&#8216;<b><i>that I will pour out my Spirit on all people,i>b><n id="2" />p> <p class="otpoetry"><b><i>and your sons and your daughters will prophesy,i>b>p> <p class="otpoetry"><b><i>and your young men will see visions,i>b>p> <p class="otpoetry"><i><b>and your old men will dream dreamsb>.i>p>

Both Paul and Barnabas replied courageously,<n id="1" /> &#8220;It was necessary to speak the word of God<n id="2" /> to you first. Since you reject it and do not consider yourselves worthy<n id="3" /> of eternal life, we<n id="4" /> are turning to the Gentiles.<n id="5" />

&#8220;Men, why are you doing these things? We too are men, with human natures<n id="1" /> just like you! We are proclaiming the good news to you, so that you should turn<n id="2" /> from these worthless<n id="3" /> things to the living God, who made the heaven, the earth,<n id="4" /> the sea, and everything that is in them.

Also some of the Epicurean<n id="1" /> and Stoic<n id="2" /> philosophers were conversing<n id="3" /> with him, and some were asking,<n id="4" /> &#8220;What does this foolish babbler<n id="5" /> want to say?&#8221; Others said, &#8220;He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign gods.&#8221;<n id="6" /> (They said this because he was proclaiming the good news about Jesus and the resurrection.)<n id="7" />

There is danger not only that this business of ours will come into disrepute,<n id="1" /> but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis<n id="2" /> will be regarded as nothing,<n id="3" /> and she whom all the province of Asia<n id="4" /> and the world worship will suffer the loss of her greatness.&#8221;<n id="5" />p>

&#8220;I am a Jew,<n id="1" /> born in Tarsus in Cilicia, but brought up<n id="2" /> in this city, educated with strictness<n id="3" /> under<n id="4" /> Gamaliel<n id="5" /> according to the law of our ancestors,<n id="6" /> and was<n id="7" /> zealous<n id="8" /> for God just as all of you are today.

So do not let them persuade you to do this,<n id="1" /> because more than forty of them<n id="2" /> are lying in ambush<n id="3" /> for him. They<n id="4" /> have bound themselves with an oath<n id="5" /> not to eat or drink anything<n id="6" /> until they have killed him, and now they are ready, waiting for you to agree to their request.&#8221;<n id="7" />

Then Festus<n id="1" /> said, &#8220;King Agrippa,<n id="2" /> and all you who are present here with us, you see this man about whom the entire Jewish populace<n id="3" /> petitioned<n id="4" /> me both in Jerusalem<n id="5" /> and here,<n id="6" /> shouting loudly<n id="7" /> that he ought not to live any longer.

He told them, &#8220;You are not permitted to know<n id="1" /> the times or periods that the Father has set by his own authority.