Acts 28:14-23

¹⁴Where, finding brethren, we were desired to tarry with them seven days: and so we went to Rome.

¹⁵And from thence, when the brethren had heard of us, they came to meet us as far as Appii Forum, and the Three Taverns: whom when Paul saw, he gave thanks to God, and took courage.

¹⁶And when we were come to Rome, Paul was suffered to dwell by himself, with a soldier that kept him.

¹⁷And after the third day, he called together the chief of the Jews. And when they were assembled, he said to them: Men, brethren, I, having done nothing against the people, or the custom of our fathers, was delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans;

¹⁸Who, when they had examined me, would have released me, for that there was no cause of death in me;

¹⁹But the Jews contradicting it, I was constrained to appeal unto Caesar; not that I had any thing to accuse my nation of.

²⁰For this cause therefore I desired to see you, and to speak to you. Because that for the hope of Israel, I am bound with this chain.

²¹But they said to him: We neither received letters concerning thee from Judea, neither did any of the brethren that came hither, relate or speak any evil of thee.

²²But we desire to hear of thee what thou thinkest; for as concerning this sect, we know that it is every where contradicted.

²³And when they had appointed him a day, there came very many to him unto his lodgings; to whom he expounded, testifying the kingdom of God, and persuading them concerning Jesus, out of the law of Moses and the prophets, from morning until evening.