Acts 28:9-24

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.

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.