20Therefore for this reason I have requested you, to see and to speak to you, for because of the hope of Israel I am wearing this chain.”
21Then they said to him, “We neither received letters from Judea concerning you, nor have any of the brothers who arrived report or speak anything evil about you.
22But we request to hear from you the things which you think; for concerning this sect, it is known to us that everywhere it is spoken against.”
23And having appointed for him a day, many came to him at his house, to whom he was explaining and solemnly testifying to the kingdom of God, and persuading them of the things concerning Jesus from both the Law of Moses and from the Prophets, from morning till evening.
24And some were persuaded by the things being said, but others refused to believe.
25And being in disagreement with one another, they went away after Paul had said one word: “The Holy Spirit spoke rightly through Isaiah the prophet to our fathers,
26saying, ‘Go to this people and say: “Hearing you will hear, and by no means understand; and seeing you shall see, and by no means perceive;