Acts 28:9-17

⁹After Paul did that, all the other sick people on the island came to him, and he made them better too.

¹⁰Then the people there did a lot of things to show they thought we were great. And when the time came for us to get ready to sail away on another ship, those people gave us food and other things that we needed.

¹¹There was another ship there that had statues of the twin gods called Castor and Pollux on the front of it. That ship came from the town called Alexandria before the bad weather started and it stayed at Malta until the bad weather was finished. We stayed at Malta in that bad weather time too, for about 3 months. Then that other ship got ready to go on to Italy country, so we all got on that ship to go to Rome, in Italy country.

¹²We sailed away from Malta and we came to an island called Sicily, and we stopped at a town called Syracuse. We stayed there for 3 days.

¹³Then we kept going and we came to a town called Rhegium, in Italy country. The next day the wind was blowing from behind us and pushing us fast, and the day after that we came to the town called Puteoli. Then we got off there and left that ship.

¹⁴We met some Christians in Puteoli, and they asked us to stay with them, so we stayed there for a week. Then we left Puteoli and started to go along the road to Rome.

¹⁵Some Christians that lived in Rome heard that we were coming, so they came out from Rome to meet us half way. Some of them met us at the place called Appius, and others met us at the place called the 3 Pubs. Paul saw them and he felt really good and happy, and he thanked God for them.

¹⁶Then we all came to Rome. The Roman boss that was in charge of the prisoners there let Paul live in a house by himself, but he always had a soldier there to guard him.

¹⁷After Paul was in Rome for 3 days, he sent a message to the Jewish leaders to come and talk with him. So they came, and Paul said to them, “My brothers, I didn’t do anything bad to our people, and I didn’t say anything bad about our Jewish culture. But our leaders in Jerusalem grabbed me, and they started to kill me. Then the boss of the Roman soldiers came and got me, and made me his prisoner.