Acts 28:6-19

⁶Well they were expecting him to swell up, or suddenly fall down dead; but after waiting for quite a while and seeing nothing unusual happening to him, they changed their mind and started saying he was a god.

⁷Now in that region there were properties belonging to the chief man of the island, named Publius, who welcomed us and in a friendly manner took care of us for three days.

⁸Well it happened that the father of Publius was sick in bed with fever and dysentery; Paul went in to him, prayed, and laying his hands on him, healed him.

⁹So, when this had happened, the rest of those on the island who had diseases started coming and being healed;

¹⁰who also honored us in many ways, and when we put to sea they provided the necessary things.

¹¹Now after three months we put to sea in an Alexandrian ship that had wintered in the island, whose figurehead was ‘the Twin Brothers’.

¹²We put in at Syracuse and stayed there three days;

¹³from there we tacked back and forth and arrived at Rhegium. After one day a south wind sprang up, and on the second day we came to Puteoli,

¹⁴where we found brothers who urged us to stay there seven days—that was how we went toward Rome.

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.