Then, after conferring with his council,<n id="1" /> Festus<n id="2" /> replied, &#8220;You have appealed to Caesar;<n id="3" /> to Caesar<n id="4" /> you will go!&#8221;<n id="5" />p>

So after they came back here with me,<n id="1" /> I did not postpone the case,<n id="2" /> but the next day I sat<n id="3" /> on the judgment seat<n id="4" /> and ordered the man to be brought.

Agrippa<n id="1" /> said to Festus,<n id="2" /> &#8220;I would also like to hear the man myself.&#8221; &#8220;Tomorrow,&#8221; he replied,<n id="3" /> &#8220;you will hear him.&#8221;p>

And now I stand here on trial<n id="1" /> because of my hope in the promise made by God to our ancestors,<n id="2" />

Of course,<n id="1" /> I myself was convinced<n id="2" /> that it was necessary to do many things hostile to the name of Jesus the Nazarene.

I will rescue<n id="1" /> you from your own people<n id="2" /> and from the Gentiles, to whom<n id="3" /> I am sending you

When the ship was caught in it<n id="1" /> and could not head into<n id="2" /> the wind, we gave way to it and were driven<n id="3" /> along.

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" />

For last night an angel of the God to whom I belong<n id="1" /> and whom I serve<n id="2" /> came to me<n id="3" />

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" />

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Therefore be advised<n id="1" /> that this salvation from God<n id="2" /> has been sent to the Gentiles;<n id="3" /> they<n id="4" /> will listen!&#8221;p>

shouting, &#8220;Men of Israel,<n id="1" /> help! This is the man who teaches everyone everywhere against our people, our law,<n id="2" /> and this sanctuary!<n id="3" /> Furthermore<n id="4" /> he has brought Greeks into the inner courts of the temple<n id="5" /> and made this holy place ritually unclean!&#8221;<n id="6" />

<p class="bodytext">They set<n id="1" /> a day to meet with him,<n id="2" /> and they came to him where he was staying<n id="3" /> in even greater numbers.<n id="4" /> From morning until evening he explained things<n id="5" /> to them,<n id="6" /> testifying<n id="7" /> about the kingdom of God<n id="8" /> and trying to convince<n id="9" /> them about Jesus from both the law of Moses and the prophets.

While he was with them,<n id="1" /> he declared,<n id="2" /> &#8220;Do not leave Jerusalem,<n id="3" /> but wait there<n id="4" /> for what my<n id="5" /> Father promised,<n id="6" /> which you heard about from me.<n id="7" />

All these continued together in prayer with one mind, together with the women, along with Mary the mother of Jesus, and his brothers.<n id="1" />

beginning from his baptism by John until the day he<n id="1" /> was taken up from us &#8211; one of these must become a witness of his resurrection together with us.&#8221;

Suddenly<n id="1" /> a sound<n id="2" /> like a violent wind blowing<n id="3" /> came from heaven<n id="4" /> and filled the entire house where they were sitting.

<p class="otpoetry"><b><i>Even on my servants,i>b><n id="1" /> <b><i>both men and women,i>b>p> <p class="otpoetry"><i><b>I will pour out my Spirit in those days, and they will prophesyb>.i><n id="2" />p>

But God raised him up,<n id="1" /> having released<n id="2" /> him from the pains<n id="3" /> of death, because it was not possible for him to be held in its power.<n id="4" />

David by foreseeing this<n id="1" /> spoke about the resurrection of the Christ,<n id="2" /> that <i>he was neither abandoned to Hadesi>,<n id="3" /> nor did his body<n id="4" /> <i>experiencei><n id="5" /> <i>decayi>.<n id="6" />