 Section 4 of Acts and having passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica where was the synagogue of the Jews and according to the custom of Paul he went in unto them and for three Sabbaths he was reasoning with them from the writings opening and alleging that the Christ it behoove to suffer and to rise again out of the dead and that this is the Christ Jesus whom I proclaim to you and certain of them did believe and attach themselves to Paul anticylus also of the worshiping Greeks a great multitude of the principal women also not a few and the unbelieving Jews having been moved with envy and having taken to them of the loungers certain evil men and having made a crowd resetting the city in an uproar having assailed also the house of Jason they were seeking them to bring them to the populace and not having found them they drew Jason and certain brethren unto the city rulers calling aloud these having put the world in commotion are also here present whom Jason hath received and these all do contrary to the decrees of Caesar saying another to be king Jesus and they troubled the multitude and the city rulers hearing these things and having taking security from Jason and the rest they let them go and the brethren immediately through the night sent forth both Paul and Silas to Berea who having come went to the synagogue of the Jews and these were more noble than those in Thessalonica they received the word with all readiness of mind every day examining the writings whether those things were so many indeed therefore of them did believe and of the honorable Greek women and men not a few and when the Jews from Thessalonica knew that also in Berea was the word of God declared by Paul they came thither also agitating the multitudes and then immediately the brethren sent forth Paul to go on as it were to the sea but both Silas and Timothy were remaining there and those conducting Paul brought him unto Athens and having received a command unto Silas and Timothy us that with all speed they may come unto him they departed and Paul waiting for them in Athens his spirit was stirred in him beholding the city holy given to idolatry therefore indeed he was reasoning in the synagogue with the Jews and with the worshiping persons and in the marketplace every day with those who met with him and certain of the Epicurean and of the Stoic philosophers were meeting together to see him and some were saying what would this seed picker wish to say and others of strange demons he does seem to be an announcer because Jesus and the raising again he did proclaim to them as good news having also taken him unto the Areopagus they brought him saying are we able to know what is this new teaching that is spoken by thee for certain strange things thou dost bring to our ears we wish then to know what these things would wish to be and all Athenians and the strangers sojourning for nothing else were at leisure but to say something and to hear some newer thing and Paul having stood in the midst of the Areopagus said men Athenians and all things I perceive you as over religious for passing through and contemplating your objects of worship I found also an erection on which had been inscribed to God unknown whom therefore not knowing ye do worship this one I announced to you God who did make the world and all things in it this one of heaven and of earth being Lord and temples made with hands doth not dwell neither by the hands of men is he served needing anything he giving to all life and breath and all things he made also of one blood every nation of men to dwell upon all the face of the earth having ordained times before appointed and the bounds of their dwellings to seek the Lord if perhaps they did feel after him and find though indeed he is not far from each one of us for in him we live and move and are as also certain of your poets have said for of him also we are offspring being therefore offspring of God we ought not to think the God had to be like to gold or silver or stone graving of art and device of man the times indeed therefore of the ignorance God having overlooked doth now command all men everywhere to reform because he did set a day in which he is about to judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he did ordain having given assurance to all having raised him out of the dead and having heard of a raising again of the dead some indeed were mocking but others said we will hear these again concerning this and so paul went forth from the midst of them and certain men having cleave to him did believe among whom is also Dionysius the areopagite and a woman by name demarius and others with them chapter 18 and after these things paul having departed out of Athens came to Corinth and having found a certain Jew by name Aquilis of Pontus by lately come from Italy and Priscilla his wife because of Claudius having directed all the Jews to depart out of Rome he came to them and because of being of the same craft he did remain with them and was working for they were tent makers as to craft and he was reasoning in the synagogue every Sabbath persuading both Jews and Greeks and when both Silas and Timothy is came down from Macedonia Paul was pressed in the spirit testifying fully to the Jews Jesus the Christ and on their resisting and speaking evil having shaken his garments he said unto them your blood is upon your head I am clean henceforth to the nations I will go on and having departed thence he went to the house of a certain one by name justice a worshipper of God whose house was adjoining the synagogue and Christmas the ruler of the synagogue did believe in the Lord with all his house and many of the Corinthians hearing were believing and they were being baptized and the Lord said through a vision in the night to paul be not afraid but be speaking and thou mayest be not silent because I am with thee and no one shall set on thee to do the evil because I have much people in this city and Galio being proconsol of a Kaia the Jews made a rush with one accord upon paul and brought him unto the tribunal saying against the law this one doth persuade men to worship God and paul being about to open his mouth Galio said unto the Jews if indeed then it was anything unrighteous or an act of wicked profligacy oh Jews according to reason I had born with you but if it is a question concerning words and names and of your law look ye yourselves to it for a judge of these things I do not wish to be and he draped them from the tribunal and all the Greeks having taken Sosthenes the chief man of the synagogue were beating him before the tribunal and not even for these things was Galio caring and paul having remained yet a good many days having taken leave of the brethren was sailing to Syria and with him are Priscilla and Aquilis and having shorn his head in Sankara for he had a vow and he came down to Ephesus and did leave them there and he himself having entered into the synagogue did reason with the Jews and they having requested him to remain a longer time with them he did not consent but took leave of them saying it behooveeth me by all means the coming feast to keep at Jerusalem and again I will return unto you God willing and he sailed from Ephesus and having come down to Caesarea having gone up and having saluted the assembly he went down to Antioch and having made some stay he went forth going through in order the region of Galatia and Phrygia strengthening all the disciples and a certain Jew Apollos by name and Alexandrian by birth a man of eloquence being mighty in the writings came to Ephesus this one was instructed in the way of the Lord and being fervent in the spirit with speaking and teaching exactly the things about the Lord knowing only the baptism of John this one also began to speak boldly in the synagogue and Aquilus and Priscilla having heard of him took him to them and did more exactly expound to him the way of God and he being minded to go through into Achaia the brethren wrote to the disciples having exhorted them to receive him who having come did help them much who have believed through the grace for powerfully the Jews he was refuting publicly shooing through the writings Jesus to be the Christ chapter 19 and it came to pass and Apollos is being in Corinth Paul having gone through the upper parts came to Ephesus and having found certain disciples he said unto them the Holy Spirit did you receive having believed and they said unto him but we did not even hear whether there is any Holy Spirit and he said unto them to what then were you baptized and they said to John's baptism and Paul said John indeed did baptize with a baptism of reformation saying to the people that in him who is coming after him they should believe that is in the Christ Jesus and they having heard were baptized to the name of the Lord Jesus and Paul having laid on them his hands the Holy Spirit came upon them they were speaking also with tongues and prophesying and all the men were as it were 12 and having gone into the synagogue he was speaking boldly for three months reasoning and persuading the things concerning the reign of God and when certain were hardened and were disbelieving speaking evil of the way before the multitude having departed from them he did separate the disciples every day reasoning in the school of a certain tyrannous and this happened for two years so that all those dwelling in Asia did hear the word of the Lord Jesus both Jews and Greeks mighty works also not common was God working through the hands of Paul so that even unto the ailing were brought from his body handkerchiefs or aprons and the sicknesses departed from them the evil spirits also went forth from them and certain of the wandering exorcist Jews took upon them to name over those having the evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus saying we adjure you by Jesus whom Paul doth preach and there were certain seven sons of Siva a Jew a chief priest who are doing this and the evil spirit answering said Jesus I know and Paul I am acquainted with and ye who are ye and the man in whom was the evil spirit leaping upon them and having overcome them prevailed against them so that naked and wounded they did flee out of that house and this became known to all both Jews and Greeks who are dwelling at Ephesus and fear fell upon them all and the name of the Lord Jesus was being magnified many also of those who did believe were coming confessing and declaring their acts and many of those who had practiced the curious arts having brought the books together were burning them before all and they reckon together the prices of them and found it five myriads of silverlings so powerfully was the word of God increasing and prevailing and when these things were fulfilled Paul purposed in the spirit having gone through Macedonia and Ikea to go on to Jerusalem saying after my being there it behooveth me also to see Rome and having sent to Macedonia two of those ministering to him to Motheus and Erastus he himself stayed a time in Asia and there came at that time not a little stir about the way for a certain one Demetrius by name a worker in silver making silver sanctuaries of Artemis was bringing to the artificers gain not a little whom having brought in a crowd together and those who did work about such things he said men you know that by this work we have our wealth and you see and hear that not only at Ephesus but also in all Asia this Paul having persuaded did turn away a great multitude saying that they are not gods who are made by hands and not only is this department in danger for us of coming into disregard but also that of the great goddess Artemis the temple is to be reckoned for nothing and also her greatness is about to be brought down whom all Asia and the world doth worship and they having heard and having become full of wrath were crying out saying great is the Artemis of the Ephesians and the whole city was filled with confusion they rushed also with one accord into the theater having caught Gaius and Aristarchus Macedonians Paul's fellow travelers and on Paul's purposing to enter in unto the populace the disciples were not suffering him and certain also of the chief men of Asia being his friends having sent unto him were in treating him not to venture himself into the theater some indeed therefore were calling out one thing and some another for the assembly was confused and the greater part did not know for what they were coming together and out of the multitude they put forward Alexander the Jews thrusting him forward and Alexander having beckoned with the hand wish to make defense to the populace and having known that he is a Jew one voice came out of all for about two hours crying great is the Artemis of the Ephesians and the public clerk having quieted the multitude sayeth men Ephesians why who is this man that doth not know that the city of the Ephesians is a devotee of the great goddess Artemis and of that which fell down from Zeus these things then not being to be gained said it is necessary for you to be quiet and to do nothing rashly for ye brought these men who are neither temple robbers nor speaking evil of your goddess if indeed therefore Demetrius and the artificers with him with anyone have a matter court days are held and there are pro consoles let them accuse one another and if you seek after anything concerning other matters in the legal assembly it shall be determined for we are also in peril of being accused of insurrection in regard to this day there being no occasion by which we shall be able to give an account of this concourse and these things having said he dismissed the assembly chapter 20 and after the ceasing of the tumult Paul having called near the disciples and having embraced them went forth to go on to Macedonia and having gone through those parts and having exhorted them with many words he came to Greece having made also three months stay a council of the Jews having been against him being about to set forth to Syria there came to him a resolution of returning through Macedonia and there were accompanying him on to Asia Sopater of Berea and of Thessalonians Aristarchus and Secundus and Gaius of Derby and Tumotheus and of Asiatics Ticacus and Trophimus these having gone before did remain for us in Troas and we sailed after the days of the unleavened food from Philippi and came unto them to Troas in five days where we abode seven days and on the first of the week the disciples having been gathered together to break bread Paul was discoursing to them about to depart on the morrow he was also continuing the discourse till midnight and there were many lamps in the upper chamber where they were gathered together and there was sitting a certain youth by name Uticus upon the window being born down by a deep sleep Paul discoursing long he having sunk down from the sleep fell down from the third story and was lifted up dead and Paul having gone down fell upon him and having embraced him said make no tumult for his life is in him and having come up and having broken bread and having tasted for a long time also having talked till daylight so he went forth and they brought up the lad alive and were comforted in no ordinary measure and we having gone before unto the ship did sail to Asos thence intending to take in Paul for so he had arranged intending himself to go on foot and when he met with us at Asos having taken him up we came to Mitolini and thence having sailed on the morrow we came over against chaos and the next day we arrived at Samos and having remained introgilium on the following day we came to Miletus for Paul decided to sail past Ephesus that there may not be to him a loss of time in Asia for he hasted if it were possible for him on the day of Pentecost to be at Jerusalem and from Miletus having sent to Ephesus he called for the elders of the assembly and when they were come unto him he said to them ye know from the first day in which I came to Asia how with you at all times I was serving the Lord with all humility and many tears and temptations that befell me in the councils of the Jews against me how nothing I did keep back of what things are profitable not to declare to you and to teach you publicly and in every house testifying fully both to Jews and Greeks toward God Reformation and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ and now low I bound in the spirit go on to Jerusalem the things that shall befall me in it not knowing save that the Holy Spirit in every city doth testify fully saying that for me bonds and tribulations remain but I make account of none of these neither do I count my life precious to myself so that I finish my course with joy and the ministration that I received from the Lord Jesus to testify fully the good news of the grace of God and now low I have known that no more shall ye see my face ye all among whom I did go preaching the reign of God wherefore I take you to witness this day that I am clear from the blood of all for I did not keep back from declaring to you all the council of God take he therefore to yourselves and to all the flock among which the Holy Spirit made you overseers to feed the assembly of God that he acquired through his own blood for I have known this that there shall enter in after my departing grievous wolves unto you not sparing the flock and of your own selves there shall arise men speaking perverse things to draw away the disciples after them therefore watch remembering that three years night and day I did not cease with tears warning each one and now I commend you brethren to God and to the word of his grace that is able to build up and to give you an inheritance among all those sanctified the silver or gold or garments of no one did I covet and ye yourselves know that to my necessities and to those who were with me minister did these hands all things I did shoe you that thus laboring it behoove us to partake with the ailing to be mindful also of the words of the Lord Jesus that he himself said it is more blessed to give than to receive and these things having said having bowed his knees with them all he did pray and there came a great weeping to all and having fallen upon the neck of Paul they were kissing him sorrowing most of all for the word that he had said that they are about no more to see his face and they were accompanying him to the ship chapter 21 and it came to pass at our sailing having been parted from them having run direct we came to coas and the succeeding day to roads and thence to patra and having found a ship passing over to finicia having gone on board we sailed and having discovered cyprus and having left it on the left we were sailing to syria and the land of tire for there was the ship discharging the lading and having found out the disciples we tarried their seven days and they said to paul through the spirit not to go up to jerusalem but when it came that we completed the days having gone forth we went on all bringing us on the way with women and children and to the outside of the city and having bowed the knees upon the shore we prayed and having embraced one another we embarked in the ship and they returned to their own friends and we having finished the course from tire came down to tolemaeus and having saluted the brethren we remained one day with them and on the morrow paul and his company having gone forth we came to cesaria and having entered into the house of philip the evangelist who is of the seven we remained with him and this one had four daughters virgins prophesying and we remaining many more days there came down a certain one from judia a prophet by name agabus and he having come unto us and having taken up the girdle of paul having bound also his own hands and feet said thus sayeth the holy spirit the man who's is this girdle so shall the jews and jerusalem bind and they shall deliver him up to the hands of nations and when we heard these things we called upon him both we and those of that place not to go up to jerusalem and paul answered what do ye weeping and crushing mine heart for i not only to be bound but also to die at jerusalem am ready for the name of the lord jesus and he not being persuaded we were silent saying the will of the lord be done and after these days having taken our vessels we were going up to jerusalem and there went also of the disciples from cesaria with us bringing with them him with whom we may lodge a certain mason of cyprus an age disciple and we having come to jerusalem the brethren did gladly receive us and on the morrow paul was going in with us unto james all the elders also came and having saluted them he was declaring one by one each of the things god did among the nations through his administration and they having heard were glorifying the lord they said also to him thou seest brother how many myriads there are of jews who have believed and all are zealous of the law and they are instructed concerning thee that apostasy for moses thou dost teach to all jews among the nations saying not to circumcise the children nor after the customs to walk what then is it certainly the multitude it behooveth to come together for they will hear that thou hast come this therefore do that we say to thee we have four men having a vow on themselves these having taken be purified with them and be at expense with them that they may shave the head and all may know that the things of which they have been instructed concerning thee are nothing but thou dost walk thyself also the law keeping and concerning those of the nations who have believed we have written having given judgment that they observe no such thing except to keep themselves both from idle sacrifices and blood and a strangled thing and hordom then paul having taken the men on the following day with them having purified himself was entering into the temple announcing the fulfillment of the days of the purification till the offering was offered for each one of them and as the seven days were about to be fully ended the jews from asia having beheld him in the temple were stirring up all the multitude and they laid hands upon him crying out men israelites help this is the man who against the people and the law and this place all everywhere is teaching and further also greeks he brought into the temple and has defiled this holy place for they had seen before trophomus the aphesian in the city with him whom they were supposing that paul brought into the temple all the city was also moved and there was a running together of the people and having laid hold of paul they were drawing him out of the temple and immediately where the doors shut and they seeking to kill him a rumor came to the chief captain of the band that all jerusalem hath been thrown into confusion who at once having taken soldiers and centurions run down upon them and they having seen the chief captain and the soldiers did leave off beating paul then the chief captain having come nigh took him and commanded him to be bound with two chains and was inquiring who he may be and what it is he hath been doing and some were crying out one thing and some another among the multitude and not being able to know the certainty because of the tumult he commanded him to be carried to the castle and when he had come upon the steps it happened he was born by the soldiers because of the violence of the multitude for the crowd of the people was following after crying away with him and paul being about to be led into the castle a sayeth to the chief captain is it permitted to me to say anything unto thee and he said greek dust thou know art not thou then the egyptian who before these days made an uprising and did lead into the desert the four thousand men of the assassins and paul said i indeed am a man a jew of tarsus of celicia of no mean city a citizen and i beseech thee suffer me to speak unto the people and he having given him leave paul having stood upon the stairs did beckon with the hand to the people and there having been a great silence he spake unto them in the hebrew dialect saying chapter 22 men brethren and fathers hear my defense now unto you and they having heard that in the hebrew dialect he was speaking to them gave the more silence and he sayeth i indeed am a man a jew having been born in tarsus of celicia and brought up in this city at the feet of gemaliel having been taught according to the exactitude of a law of the fathers being zealous of god as all ye are today and this way i persecuted unto death binding and delivering up to prisons both men and women as also the chief priest doth testify to me and all the eldership from whom also having received letters unto the brethren to demascus i was going on to bring also those there bound to jerusalem and i heard a voice saying to me saul saul why me dost thou persecute and i answered who art thou lord and he said unto me i am jesus the nazarene whom thou dost persecute and they who are with me the light did see and became afraid and the voice they heard not of him who is speaking to me and i said what shall i do lord and the lord said unto me having risen go on to demascus and there shall be told the concerning all things that have been appointed for thee to do and when i did not see from the glory of that light being led by the hand by those who are with me i came to demascus and a certain one ananias a pious man according to the law being testified to by all the jews dwelling there having come on to me and stood by me and said to me saul brother look up and i the same hour did look up to him and he said the god of our fathers did choose thee beforehand to know his will and to see the righteous one and to hear a voice out of his mouth because thou shalt be his witness unto all men of what thou has seen and heard and now why terrius thou having risen baptize thyself and wash away thy sins calling upon the name of the lord and it came to pass when i returned to jerusalem and while i was praying in the temple i came into a trance and i saw him saying to me hasten go forth to haste out of jerusalem because they will not receive thy testimony concerning me and i said lord they they know that i was imprisoning and was scourging in every synagogue those believing on thee and when the blood of thy witness steven was being poured forth i also was standing by and ascending to his death and keeping the garments of those putting him to death and he said unto me go because to nations far off i will send thee and they were hearing him unto this word and they lifted up their voicing away from the earth with such an one for it is not fit for him to live and they crying out and casting up their garments and throwing dust into the air the chief captain commanded him to be brought into the castle saying by scourges let him be examined that he might know for what cause they were crying so against him and as he was stretching him with the thongs paul said unto the centurion who was standing by a man a roman uncondemned is it lawful to you to scourge and the centurion having heard having gone near to the chief captain told saying take heed what thou art about to do for this man is a roman and the chief captain having come near said to him tell me art thou a roman and he said yes and the chief captain answered i with a great sum did obtain this citizenship but paul said but i have been even born so immediately therefore they departed from him who are about to examine him and the chief captain also was afraid having learned that he is a roman and because he had bound him and on the morrow intending to know the certainty wherefore he is accused by the jews he did loose him from the bonds and commanded the chief priest and all their sanhedrin to come and having brought down paul he set him before them end of section four section five of axe this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org axe from young's literal translation translated by robert young section five chapter 23 and paul having earnestly beheld this sanhedrin said men brethren i and all good conscience have lived to god unto this day and the chief priest ananias commanded those standing by him to smite him on the mouth then paul said unto him god is about to smite thee thou white washed wall and thou thou dost sit judging me according to the law and violating law dost order me to be smitten and those who stood by said the chief priest of god dost thou revile and paul said i do not know brethren that he is chief priest for it hath been written of the ruler of thy people thou shall not speak evil and paul having known that the one part are satichies and the other Pharisees cried out in the sanhedrin men brethren i am a Pharisee son of a Pharisee concerning hope and rising again of dead men i am judged and he having spoken this there came a dissension of the Pharisees and of the satichies and the crowd was divided for satichies indeed say there is no rising again nor messenger nor spirit but Pharisees confess both and there came a great cry and the scribes of the Pharisees part having arisen were striving saying no evil do we find in this man and if a spirit spake to him or a messenger we may not fight against god and a great dissension having come the chief captain having been afraid lest paul may be pulled to pieces by them commanded the soldiery having gone down to take him by force out of the midst of them and to bring him to the castle and on the following night the lord having stood by him said take courage paul for his thou dist fully testify the things concerning me at jerusalem so at behoofeth thee also at roam to testify and day having come certain of the jews having made a concourse did an anathematize themselves saying neither to eat nor drink till they may kill paul and they were more than 40 who made this conspiracy by oath who having come near to the chief priest and to the elders said with an anathema we did anathematize ourselves to taste nothing till we have killed paul now therefore ye signify ye to the chief captain with the sanhedrin that tomorrow he may bring him down unto you as being about to know more exactly the things concerning him and we before his coming nigh are ready to put him to death and the son of paul's sister having heard of the lying and wait having gone and entered into the castle told paul and paul having called near one of the centurion said this young man lead unto the chief captain for he hath something to tell him he indeed then having taken him brought him unto the chief captain and said the prisoner paul having called me near asked me this young man to bring unto thee having something to say to thee and the chief captain having taken him by the hand and having withdrawn by themselves inquired what is that which thou hast to tell me and he said the jews agreed to request thee that tomorrow to the sanhedrin thou mayest bring down paul as being about to inquire something more exactly concerning him thou therefore mayest thou not yield to them for their lie and wait for him of them more than forty men who did anathematize themselves not to eat nor to drink till they kill him and now they are ready waiting for the promise from thee the chief captain then indeed let the young man go having charged him to tell no one that these things thou show unto me and having called near a certain two of the centurions he said make ready soldiers two hundred that they may go on unto cesaria and horsemen seventy in spearmint two hundred from the third hour of the night beasts also provide that having set paul on they may bring him safe unto felix the governor he having written a letter after this description claudius lyceus to the most noble governor felix hail this man having been taken by the jews and being about to be killed by them having come with the soldiery i rescued him having learned that he is a roman and intended to know the cause for which they were accusing him i brought him down to their sanhedrin whom i found accused concerning questions of their law and having no accusation worthy of death or bonds and a plot having been intimated to me against this man about to be of the jews at once i sent unto thee having given command also to the accusers to say the things against him before thee be strong then indeed the soldiers according to that directed them having taken up paul brought him through the night to antipatras and on the morning having suffered the horsemen to go on with him they returned to the castle those having entered into cesaria and delivered the letter to the governor did present also paul to him and the governor having read it and inquired of what province he is and and understood that he is from salicia i will hear thee said he when the unaccuses also may have come he also commanded him to be kept in the praetorium of heron 24 and after five days came down the chief priest ananias with the elders in a certain orator tertulis and they made manifest to the governor the things against paul and he having been called tertulis began to accuse him saying much peace and join through thee and worthy deeds being done to this nation through thy forethought always also and everywhere we receive it most noble phoenix with all thankfulness and that i may not be further tedious to thee i pray thee to hear us concisely in thy gentleness for having found this man a pestilence and moving a dissension to all the jews through the world a ringleader also of the sector the nazareans who also the temple did try to profane whom also we took and according to our law it did wish to judge in lyceus the chief captain having come near with much violence out of our hands did take away having commanded his accusers to come to thee for whom thou mayest be able thyself having examined to know concerning all these things of which we accuse him and the jews also agreed professing these things to be so and paul answered the governor having beckoned in to speak knowing that for many years thou has been a judge to this nation the more cheerfully the things concerning myself i do answer thou being able to know that it is not more than 12 days to me since i went up to worship in jewsland and neither in the temple did they find me reasoning with anyone or making a dissension of the multitude nor in the synagogues nor in the city nor are they able to prove against me the things concerning which they now accuse me and i confess this to thee that according to the way that they call a sect so survive the god of the fathers believing all things that in the law and the prophets have been written having hoped toward god which they themselves also wait for that there is about to be a rising again of the dead both of righteous and unrighteous and in this i do exercise myself to have a conscience void of offense toward god and then always and after many years i came about to do kind acts to my nation in offerings in which certain jews from asia did find me purified in the temple not with multitude nor with tumult whom it behoofeth to be present before thee and to accuse if they had anything against me or let these same say if they found any unrighteousness in me in my standing before the sanhedrin except concerning this one voice in which i cried standing among them concerning a rising again of the dead i am judged today by you and having heard these things felix delayed them having known more exactly of the things concerning the way saying when liceas the chief captain may come down i will know fully the things concerning you having given also a direction to the censure and to keep all to let him also have liberty and to forbid none of his own friends to minister or to come near him and after certain days felix having come with drosilla his wife being a jewess he sent for paul and heard him concerning the faith toward christ any reasoning concerning righteousness and temperance and the judgment that is about to be felix having become afraid answered for the present begoing and having got time i will call for thee and at the same time also hoping that money shall be given to him by paul that he may release him also sending for him the offener he was conversing with him in two years having been fulfilled felix received a successor porceus festus felix also willing to lay a favor on the jews left paul bound 25 festus therefore having come into the province after three days went up to jerusalem from cesaria and the chief priest and the principal man of the jews made manifest to him the things against paul and were calling on him asking favor against him that he may send for him to jerusalem making an ambush to put him to death in the way then indeed festus answered that paul is kept in cesaria and himself is about speedily to go thither therefore those able among you say that he having come down together if there be anything in this man let them accuse him and having tarried among them more than ten days having gone down to cesaria on the morrow having sat upon the tribunal he commanded paul to be brought and he having come there stood round about the jews who have come down from jerusalem many and weighty charges they are bringing against paul which they were not able to prove he making defense neither in regard to the law of the jews nor in regard to the temple nor in regard to cesar did i commit any sin infestus willing to lay on the jews a favor answering paul said art thou willing to jerusalem having gone up they're concerning these things to be judged before me and paul said at the tribunal of cesar i am standing where it behoofeth me to be judged to jews i did know unrighteousness as thou dost also very well know and if indeed i am unrighteous and anything worthy of death have done i deprecate not to die and if there is none of the things of which these accuse me no one is able to make a favor of me to them to cesar i appeal and festus having communed with the council answered to cesar thou hast appealed to cesar thou shalt go in certain days having passed a grip of the king and bernice came down to cesaria saluting festus and as they were continuing their more days festus submitted to the king the things concerning paul saying there is a certain man left by felix a prisoner about whom and my being at jerusalem the chief priests and the elders of the jews laid information asking a decision against him unto whom i answered that it is not a custom of romans to make a favor of any man to die before that he who was accused may have the accusers face to face and may receive place of defense in regard to the charge laid against him they therefore having come together i making no delay on the seceding day having sat upon the tribunal did command the man to be brought concerning whom the accusers having stood up were bringing against him no accusation of the things i was thinking of but certain questions concerning their own religion they had against him and concerning a certain jesus who was dead whom paul affirmed to be alive and i doubting in regard to the question concerning this said if he would wish to go to jerusalem and there to be judged concerning these things would paul having appealed to be kept to the hearing of sabastas i did command him to be kept till i might send him on to cesar and agrippa said unto festus i was wishing also myself to hear the man and he said tomorrow that shall hear him and on the morrow therefore on the coming of agrippa and bernice with much display and they having entered into the audience chamber with the chief captains also and the principal men of the city and festus having ordered paul was brought forth and festus said king agrippa all the men who are present with us you see this one about whom all the multitude of the jews did deal with me both in jerusalem and here crying out he ought not to live any longer and i having found him to have done nothing worthy of death and he also himself having appealed to sabastas i decided to send him concerning whom i have no certain thing to write to my lord wherefore i brought him forth before you and especially before the king agrippa that the examination having been made i may have something to write for it does seem to me irrational sending a prisoner not also to signify the charges against him twenty six and agrippa said unto paul it is permitted to be to speak for thyself then paul having stretched forth the hand was making a defense concerning all things of which i am accused by jews king agrippa i have got myself happy being about to make a defense before the today especially knowingly to be acquainted with all things both customs and questions among jews wherefore i beseech thee patiently to hear me the matter of my life then indeed from youth which from the beginning was among my nation in jerusalem no do all the jews knowing me before from the first if they may be willing to testify that after the most exact sect of our worship i lived a Pharisee and now for the hope of the promise made to the fathers by god i've stood judged to which our twelve trials intently night and day serving to hope to come concerning which hope i am accused king agrippa by the jews why is it judged incredible with you if god doth raise the dead i indeed therefore thought with myself that against the name of jesus of nazareth it behooved me many things to do which also i did in jerusalem and many of the saints i in prison did shut up from the chief priests having received the authority they also being put to death i gave my vote against them and in every synagogue often punishing them i was constraining them to speak evil being also exceedingly mad against them i was also persecuting them even unto strange cities in which things also going on to damascus with authority and commission from the chief priests at midday i saw in a way o king out of heaven above the brightness of the sun shining round about me a light and those going on with me and we all having fallen to the earth i heard a voice speaking unto me and saying in the hebrew dialect sol sol why me dost thou persecute hard for thee against pricks to kick and i said who art thou lord and he said i am jesus whom thou dost persecute put rise and stand upon thy feet for this i appeared to thee to appoint thee an officer and a witness both of the things that thou dissee and of the things in which i will appear to thee delivering thee from the people and the nations to whom now i send thee to open their eyes to turn them from darkness to light and from the authority of the adversary and to god for they're receiving forgiveness of sins and a lot among those having been sanctified by faith that is toward me whereupon king agrippa was not disobedient to the heavenly vision but to those in damascus first and to those in jerusalem all the region also of judaea and to the nations i was preaching to reform and to turn back unto god doing works worthy of reformation because of these things the jews having caught me in the temple were endeavoring to kill me having obtained therefore help from god till this day i've stood witnessing both to small and to great saying nothing besides the things that both the prophets and moses spake of as about to come that the christ is to suffer whether first by arising from the dead he is about to proclaim light to the people and to the nations and he thus making a defense festus with a loud voice said thou art mad paul much learning doth turn me mad and he saith i'm not mad most noble festus but of truth and soberness the sangs i speak forth for the king doth know concerning these things before whom also i speak boldly for none of these things i am persuaded are hidden from him for this thing have not been done in a corner thou dost believe king agrippa the prophets i've known that thou dost believe me and agrippa said unto paul in a little thou dost persuade me to become a christian and paul said i would have wished to god both in a little and in much not only the but but also all those hearing me today to become such as i also am except these bounds except these bonds and he having spoken these things the king rose up and the governor bernice also and those sitting with them and having withdrawn they were speaking unto one another saying this man doth nothing worthy of death or of bonds and agrippa said to festus this man might have been released if he had not appealed to caesar 27 the one who are sailing to italy was determined they were delivering up both paul and certain others prisoners to a censurion by name julius of the band of sabastus and having embarked in a ship of adramiteum we being about to sail by the coast of asia did set sail there being with us iris darkus the macedonian of the salonica on the next day also we touched at siden and julius courteously treating paul did permit him having gone on unto friends to receive their care and thence having set sail we sailed under cyprus because of the winds being contrary and having sailed over the sea over against salicia and pamphilia we came to myria of lycia in there the censurion having found a ship of alexandria sailing to italy did put us into it and having sailed slowly many days and with difficulty coming over against canitas the wind not suffering us we sailed under crete over against salmone and hardly passing it we came to a certain place called fair havens nigh to which was the city of las asca in much time being spent in the sailing being now dangerous because of the fast also being already past paul was admonishing saying to them men i perceive that with hurt and much damage not only of the lating and of the ship but also of our lives the voyage is about to be but the censurion to the pilot and to the shipowner gave credence more than to the thing spoken by paul and the haven being incomodious to winter in the more part gave counsel to sail thence also if by any means they might be able having attained to finis there to winter which is a haven of crete looking to the southwest and northwest and the south wind blowing softly having thought they had attained their purpose having lifted anchor they sailed close by crete and not long after there arose against it a tempetuous wind that is called ero psych don and the ship being caught and not being able to bear up against the wind having given her up we were born on and having run under a certain little island called clouda we were hardly able to become masters of the boat which having taken up they were using helps undergirding the ship and fearing less they may fall on the quicksand having let down the mass so we're born on and we being exceedingly tempest toss the succeeding day they were making a clearing and on the third day with their own hands the tackling of the ship we cast out in neither sun nor stars appearing for more days and not a little tempest lying upon us thence forth all hope was taken away of our being saved and there having been long fasting then paul having stood in the midst of them said it behoved you indeed o men having harkened to me not to set sail from crete and to save this hurt and damage and now exhort you to be of good cheer for there shall be no loss of life among you but of the ship for there stood by me this night a messenger of god whose i am and whom i serve sang be not afraid paul before Caesar it behooveth be to stand and lo god has granted to thee although sailing would be wherefore be of good cheer men for i believe god that so it shall be even as it hath been spoken to me and on a certain island it behoove us to be cast and when the 14th night came we were born up and down in the adria toward the middle of the night the sailors were supposing that some country drew nigh to them and having sounded they found 20 fathoms and having gone a little farther and again having sounded they found 15 fathoms in fearing less on rough places when they fall out of the stern having cast four anchors they were wishing day to come and the sailors seeking to flee out of the ship and having let down the boat to the sea and pretense as if out of the fourth ship they are about to cast anchors paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers if these do not remain in the ship you are not able to be saved then the soldiers did cut off the ropes of the boat and suffered it to fall off until the day was about to be paul was calling upon all to partake of nourishment saying 14 days today waiting ye continue fasting having taken nothing wherefore i call upon you to take nourishment for this is for your safety for of not one of you shall a hair from the head fall and having said these things and having taken bread he gave thanks to god before all and having broken it he began to eat and all having become of good cheer themselves also took food and we were all the souls in the ship 270 and 6 and having eaten sufficient nourishment they were lightening the ship casting forth the wheat into the sea and when the day came they were not discerning the land but a certain creek were perceiving having a beach into which they took counsel if possible to thrust forward the ship and the anchors having taken up they were committing it to the sea at the same time having loosed the bands of the rudders and having hoisted up the mainsail to the wind they were making for the shore and having fallen into a place of two seas they ran the ship aground and the four part indeed having stuck fast did remain immovable but the hinder part was broken by the violence of the waves and the soldiers council was that they should kill the prisoners lest any one having swam out should escape but the centurion wishing to save paul hindered them from the council and did command those able to swim having cast themselves off first to get onto the land and the rest some indeed upon boards and some upon certain things of the ship and thus he came to pass that all came safe onto the land 28 and having been saved then they knew that the island is called melita and the foreigners were showing us with no ordinary kindness for having kindled the fire they received us all because of the pressing rain because of the cold but paul having gathered together a quantity of sticks and having laid them upon the fire a viper out of the heat having come did fasten on his hand and when the foreigners saw the beast hanging from his hand they said unto one another certainly this man is a murderer whom having been saved out of the sea the justice did not suffer to live he then indeed having shaken off the beast into the fire suffered no evil and they were expecting him to be about to be in flame or to fall down suddenly dead and they expecting it a long time and seeing nothing uncommon happening to him changed their minds and said he was a god and in the neighborhood of that place were lands of the principal man of the island by the name publius who having received us three days did courtiously lodge us and he came to pass the father of publius with feverish heats and dysentery pressed was laid on to whom paul having entered and having prayed having laid his hands on him healed him this therefore being done the others also in the island having infirmities were coming and were healed and also with many honors did honor us and we setting sail they were lading us with the things that were necessary and after three months we set sail in a ship that had wintered in the isle of alexandria with the sign deal scurry and having landed at syracuse we remain three days then having gone round we came to radium and after one day a south wind having sprung up the second day we came to patioli we're having found brethren we were called upon to remain with them seven days and thus to roam we came and thence the brethren having heard the things concerning us came forth to meet us unto api forum and three taverns whom paul having seen having given thanks to god took courage and when we came to roam the centurion delivered up the prisoners to the captain of the barrack but paul was suffered to remain by himself with the soldier guardian and it came to pass after three days paul called together those who are the principal men of the jews and they having come together he said unto them men brethren i having done nothing contrary to the people or to the customs of the fathers of prisoner from jerusalem was delivered up to the hands of the romans who having examined me were wishing to release me because of their being no cause of death in me in the jews having spoken against it i was constrained to appeal unto cesar not as having anything to accuse my nation of for this cause therefore i called for you to see and to speak with you for because of the hope of israel with this chain i am bound and they said unto him we did neither receive letters concerning me from judaea nor did anyone who came of the brethren declare or speak any evil concerning me and we think it good from thee to hear what thou dost think for indeed concerning this sect it is known to us that everywhere it is spoken against and having appointed him a day they came more of them unto him to the lodging to whom he was expounding testifying fully the reign of god persuading them also of the things concerning jesus both from the law of moses and the prophets from morning till evening and some indeed were believing the things spoken and some were not believing and not being agreed with one another they were going away paul having spoken one word well did the holy spirit speak through isaia the prophet unto our fathers saying go on unto this people and say with hearing ye shall hear and ye shall not understand and seeing ye shall see and ye shall not perceive for may gross was the heart of this people and with the years they heard heavily in their eyes they did close lest they may see with the eyes and with the heart may understand and be turned back and i may heal them be it known therefore to you that to the nations was sent the salvation of god these also were here at and he having said these things the jews went away having much disputation among themselves and paul remained an entire two years in his own hired house and was receiving all those coming in unto him preaching the reign of god and teaching the things concerning the lord jesus christ with all boldness unforbidden end of section five end of acts from young's literal translation translated by robert young