Acts 28:20-27

²⁰So I have requested you to come here so that I can tell you why I am a prisoner. It is because I believe in MTY our Messiah, the one God long ago promised to send to us (inc) Jews.”

²¹Then the Jewish leaders said, “We (exc) have not received any letters from our fellow Jews in Judea about you. Also, none of our fellow Jews who have arrived here from Judea has said anything bad about you.

²²But we (exc) want to hear what you (sg) think about this Christian sect/group, because we know that in many places HYP bad things are being said {people are saying bad things} about it.”

²³So they talked with Paul and decided that they would come back on another day to hear him. When that day arrived, those Jews came back to the place where Paul was staying, and they brought more Jews with them. Paul talked to them from morning until evening. He talked to them about how God wants to rule people's lives MET. He tried to convince them that Jesus is the Messiah by reminding them what Moses and the other prophets had written MTY.

²⁴Some of those Jews believed that what was said by Paul {what Paul said} about Jesus was true, but others did not believe that it was true.

²⁵So they began to argue with one another. Paul realized that some of them did not want to listen to him, so when they were about to leave, he said, “The Holy Spirit said something to your/our(incl) ancestors. He spoke these words to Isaiah the prophet, and what he said is also true about you:

²⁶Go to your fellow Israelites and tell them, ‘You repeatedly listen to the message of God, but you never understand what God is saying. You repeatedly look at and see the things that God is doing, but you never understand what they mean.

²⁷God also said to the prophet, These people do not understand, because they have become stubborn. They have ears, but they do not understand what they hear, and they have closed their eyes because they do not want to see. If they wanted to obey what I say to them, they might understand what they see me doing and what they hear me saying. Then they might turn from their sinful behavior and I would save them.’