Acts 28:15-21

¹⁵And the brothers there, when they heard about our circumstances, came out to meet us as far as Appii Forum and Three Inns. When Paul saw them he thanked God and took courage.

¹⁶Now when we entered Rome, the centurion delivered the prisoners to the commander; but Paul was allowed to live by himself, with the soldier who guarded him.

¹⁷It happened that after three days Paul called together the leaders of the Jews; and when they had assembled he said to them: “Men, brothers, though I had done nothing against ‘the people’ or the ancestral customs, still I was delivered as a prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans,

¹⁸who, when they had examined me, were intending to release me, because I was not guilty of any crime deserving death.

¹⁹But when the Jews spoke against it, I was compelled to appeal to Caesar; not that I had anything about which to accuse my nation.

²⁰For this reason therefore I asked to see you and speak with you; it is because of the hope of Israel that I am bound with this chain.”

²¹So they said to him: “We have neither received letters from Judea concerning you, nor have any of the brothers who came reported or spoken any evil about you.