Acts 28:14-23

¹⁴where we discovered some believers. They asked us to stay with them for a week. So we came to Rome.

¹⁵When some of the believers from Rome heard we had arrived they came to meet us at the Forum of Appius and the Three Taverns. When Paul saw them, he was thankful to God and much encouraged.

¹⁶When we entered Rome, Paul was permitted to stay under house arrest with a soldier to guard him.

¹⁷Three days later Paul invited the Jewish leaders there to come to see him. When they were all together he told them, “Brothers, even though I had not done anything wrong against the people or the customs of our forefathers, I was arrested in Jerusalem and handed over to the Roman authorities.

¹⁸After they had interrogated me they wanted to release me because I had done nothing that warranted execution.

¹⁹But the Jewish leaders opposed this, so I was forced to appeal to Caesar—not that I had any accusations against my own people.

²⁰That's why I asked to see you, and talk to you, because it is on account of the hope of Israel that I am chained up like this.”

²¹“We have not received any letters from Judea about you, and none of our people have come here with reports against you or to speak badly of you,” they told him.

²²“But we do want to hear from you what you believe—especially regarding this sect, which we know is condemned everywhere.”

²³They made an appointment to meet with him. On that day many people came to where he was staying. From morning till night Paul was explaining to them, telling them about the kingdom of God. He tried to convince them about Jesus using the writings of the law of Moses and the prophets.