Acts 28:20-26

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.

²²But we desire to hear from you what you think; because as for this sect, we know that it is spoken against everywhere.”

²³So arranging a day with him, even more people came to him at his lodging, to whom he kept expounding from morning until evening: solemnly testifying about the Kingdom of God and trying to convince them concerning Jesus, from both the Law of Moses and the Prophets.

²⁴Well some were persuaded by what had been said, and some kept refusing to believe.

²⁵So being in disagreement among themselves they started to leave, after Paul had said this one word: “The Holy Spirit spoke correctly to our fathers through Isaiah the prophet,

²⁶saying: ‘Go to this people and say, “You will keep on hearing, but never understand; you will keep on seeing, but never perceive”;