But I said, &#8216;Certainly not, Lord, for nothing defiled or ritually unclean<n id="1" /> has ever entered my mouth!&#8217;

For<n id="1" /> a period of about forty years he put up with<n id="2" /> them in the wilderness.<n id="3" />

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.

Therefore he also says in another psalm,<n id="1" /> &#8216;<b><i>You will not permit your Holy Onei>b><n id="2" /> <b><i>to experiencei>b><n id="3" /> <b><i>decayi>b>.&#8217;<n id="4" />

After<n id="1" /> the city officials<n id="2" /> had received bail<n id="3" /> from Jason and the others, they released them.p>

He addressed<n id="1" /> both Jews and Greeks in the synagogue<n id="2" /> every Sabbath, attempting to persuade<n id="3" /> them.p>

(Now seven sons of a man named<n id="1" /> Sceva, a Jewish high priest, were doing this.)<n id="2" />

There were more than forty of them who formed this conspiracy.<n id="1" />

Most excellent Felix,<n id="1" /> we acknowledge this everywhere and in every way<n id="2" /> with all gratitude.<n id="3" />

Why do you people<n id="1" /> think<n id="2" /> it is unbelievable<n id="3" /> that<n id="4" /> God raises the dead?

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Therefore, King Agrippa,<n id="1" /> I was not disobedient<n id="2" /> to the heavenly<n id="3" /> vision,

Not long after this, a hurricane-force<n id="1" /> wind called the northeaster<n id="2" /> blew down from the island.<n id="3" />

and on the third day they threw the ship&#8217;s gear<n id="1" /> overboard with their own hands.

So all of them were encouraged and took food themselves.

However,<n id="1" /> Paul<n id="2" /> shook<n id="3" /> the creature off into the fire and suffered no harm.

<t /><p class="bodytext">The group of those who believed were of one heart and mind,<n id="1" /> and no one said that any of his possessions was his own, but everything was held in common.<n id="2" />

Large numbers<n id="1" /> of those who had practiced magic<n id="2" /> collected their books<n id="3" /> and burned them up in the presence of everyone.<n id="4" /> When<n id="5" /> the value of the books was added up, it was found to total fifty thousand silver coins.<n id="6" />

After the city secretary<n id="1" /> quieted the crowd, he said, &#8220;Men of Ephesus, what person<n id="2" /> is there who does not know that the city of the Ephesians is the keeper<n id="3" /> of the temple of the great Artemis<n id="4" /> and of her image that fell from heaven?<n id="5" />

Then<n id="1" /> he summoned<n id="2" /> two of the centurions<n id="3" /> and said, &#8220;Make ready two hundred soldiers to go to Caesarea<n id="4" /> along with seventy horsemen<n id="5" /> and two hundred spearmen<n id="6" /> by<n id="7" /> nine o&#8217;clock tonight,<n id="8" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">After three days<n id="1" /> Paul<n id="2" /> called the local Jewish leaders<n id="3" /> together. When they had assembled, he said to them, &#8220;Brothers,<n id="4" /> although I had done<n id="5" /> nothing against our people or the customs of our ancestors,<n id="6" /> from Jerusalem<n id="7" /> I was handed over as a prisoner to the Romans.<n id="8" />