So Paul left the Areopagus.<n id="1" />

After<n id="1" /> making Peter and John<n id="2" /> stand in their midst, they began to inquire, &#8220;By what power or by what name<n id="3" /> did you do this?&#8221;

In those days<n id="1" /> Peter stood up among the believers<n id="2" /> (a gathering of about one hundred and twenty people) and said,

(Now this man Judas<n id="1" /> acquired a field with the reward of his unjust deed,<n id="2" /> and falling headfirst<n id="3" /> he burst open in the middle and all his intestines<n id="4" /> gushed out.

<p class="bodytext">So Paul stood<n id="1" /> before the Areopagus and said, &#8220;Men of Athens, I see that you are very religious<n id="2" /> in all respects.<n id="3" />

about noon along the road, Your Majesty,<n id="1" /> I saw a light from heaven,<n id="2" /> brighter than the sun, shining everywhere around<n id="3" /> me and those traveling with me.

<p class="bodytext">When the fourteenth night had come, while we were being driven<n id="1" /> across the Adriatic Sea,<n id="2" /> about midnight the sailors suspected they were approaching some land.<n id="3" />

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Men of Israel,<n id="1" /> listen to these words: Jesus the Nazarene, a man clearly attested to you by God with powerful deeds,<n id="2" /> wonders, and miraculous signs<n id="3" /> that God performed among you through him, just as you yourselves know &#8211;

When the argument became<n id="1" /> so great the commanding officer<n id="2" /> feared that they would tear Paul to pieces,<n id="3" /> he ordered the detachment<n id="4" /> to go down, take him away from them by force,<n id="5" /> and bring him into the barracks.<n id="6" />p>

<p class="bodytext">Since many of them had no desire to eat,<n id="1" /> Paul<n id="2" /> stood up<n id="3" /> among them and said, &#8220;Men, you should have listened to me<n id="4" /> and not put out to sea<n id="5" /> from Crete, thus avoiding<n id="6" /> this damage and loss.