Acts 28:15-21

¹⁵And the brothers, when they had news of us, came out from town as far as Appii Forum and the Three Taverns to have a meeting with us: and Paul, seeing them, gave praise to God and took heart.

¹⁶And when we came into Rome, they let Paul have a house for himself and the armed man who kept watch over him.

¹⁷Then after three days he sent for the chief men of the Jews: and when they had come together, he said to them, My brothers, though I had done nothing against the people or the ways of our fathers, I was given, a prisoner from Jerusalem, into the hands of the Romans.

¹⁸Who, when they had put questions to me, were ready to let me go free, because there was no cause of death in me.

¹⁹But when the Jews made protest against it, I had to put my cause into Caesar's hands; not because I have anything to say against my nation.

²⁰But for this reason I sent for you, to see and have talk with you: for because of the hope of Israel I am in these chains.

²¹And they said to him, We have not had letters from Judaea about you, and no one of the brothers has come to us here to give an account or say any evil about you.