<p class="bodytext">The crowd joined the attack<n id="1" /> against them, and the magistrates tore the clothes<n id="2" /> off Paul and Silas<n id="3" /> and ordered them to be beaten with rods.<n id="4" />

So they took Paul and<n id="1" /> brought him to the Areopagus,<n id="2" /> saying, &#8220;May we know what this new teaching is that you are proclaiming?

Then the man who was possessed by<n id="1" /> the evil spirit jumped on<n id="2" /> them and beat them all into submission.<n id="3" /> He prevailed<n id="4" /> against them so that they fled from that house naked and wounded.

This became known to all who lived in Ephesus,<n id="1" /> both Jews and Greeks; fear came over<n id="2" /> them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was praised.<n id="3" />

He gathered<n id="1" /> these<n id="2" /> together, along with the workmen in similar trades,<n id="3" /> and said, &#8220;Men, you know that our prosperity<n id="4" /> comes from this business.

The<n id="1" /> city was filled with the uproar,<n id="2" /> and the crowd<n id="3" /> rushed to the theater<n id="4" /> together,<n id="5" /> dragging with them Gaius and Aristarchus, the Macedonians who were Paul&#8217;s traveling companions.

So then some were shouting one thing, some another, for the assembly was in confusion, and most of them did not know why they had met together.<n id="1" />

Therefore be alert,<n id="1" /> remembering that night and day for three years I did not stop warning<n id="2" /> each one of you with tears.

After we located<n id="1" /> the disciples, we stayed there<n id="2" /> seven days. They repeatedly told<n id="3" /> Paul through the Spirit<n id="4" /> not to set foot<n id="5" /> in Jerusalem.<n id="6" />

(For they had seen Trophimus the Ephesian in the city with him previously, and<n id="1" /> they assumed Paul had brought him into the inner temple courts.)<n id="2" />

The whole city was stirred up,<n id="1" /> and the people rushed together.<n id="2" /> They seized<n id="3" /> Paul and dragged him out of the temple courts,<n id="4" /> and immediately the doors were shut.

and saw the Lord<n id="1" /> saying to me, &#8216;Hurry and get out of Jerusalem quickly, because they will not accept your testimony about me.&#8217;

He replied,<n id="1" /> &#8220;The Jews have agreed to ask you to bring Paul down to the council<n id="2" /> tomorrow, as if they were going to inquire more thoroughly about him.

At the same time he was also hoping that Paul would give him money,<n id="1" /> and for this reason he sent for Paul<n id="2" /> as often as possible<n id="3" /> and talked<n id="4" /> with him.

But when Paul appealed to be kept in custody for the decision of His Majesty the Emperor,<n id="1" /> I ordered him to be kept under guard until I could send him to Caesar.&#8221;<n id="2" />

But I found that he had done nothing that deserved death,<n id="1" /> and when he appealed<n id="2" /> to His Majesty the Emperor,<n id="3" /> I decided to send him.<n id="4" />

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.

that<n id="1" /> the Christ<n id="2" /> was to suffer and be the first to rise from the dead, to proclaim light both to our people<n id="3" /> and to the Gentiles.&#8221;<n id="4" />p>

Then when the sailors tried to escape from the ship and were lowering the ship&#8217;s boat into the sea, pretending<n id="1" /> that they were going to put out anchors from the bow,

But we would like to hear from you what you think, for regarding this sect we know<n id="1" /> that people<n id="2" /> everywhere speak against<n id="3" /> it.&#8221;p>