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- After many days had passed, the Jews conspired to kill him, …
- He talked and debated with the Grecian Jews, but they tried to kill him.
- When the brothers learned of this, they took him down to Caesarea and sent him off to Tarsus.
- …they found out about it and fled to the Lycaonian cities of Lystra and Derbe and to the surrounding region, …
- We sailed from Troas straight to Samothrace, and the following day on to Neapolis. …
- When they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue. …
- …where he stayed three months. And when the Jews formed a plot against him as he was about to sail for Syria, he decided to go back through Macedonia.
- When the seven days were almost over, some Jews from the province of Asia saw Paul at the temple. They stirred up the whole crowd and seized him, …
- …and saw the Lord saying to me, ‘Hurry! Leave Jerusalem quickly, because the people here will not accept your testimony about Me.’
- Then He said to me, ‘Go! I will send you far away to the Gentiles.’”
- …the commander ordered that Paul be brought into the barracks. He directed that Paul be flogged and interrogated to determine the reason for this outcry against him. …
- The following night the Lord stood near Paul and said, “Take courage! As you have testified about Me in Jerusalem, so also you must testify in Rome.” …
- Five days later the high priest Ananias came down with some elders and a lawyer named Tertullus, who presented to the governor their case against Paul.
- Three days after his arrival in the province, Festus went up from Caesarea to Jerusalem,
- Agrippa said to Paul, “You have permission to speak for yourself.” Then Paul stretched out his hand and began his defense:
- The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, who is forever worthy of praise, knows that I am not lying. …
- Later I went to the regions of Syria and Cilicia. …
- So do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, or of me, His prisoner. Instead, join me in suffering for the gospel by the power of God.
- May the Lord grant mercy to the household of Onesiphorus, because he has often refreshed me and was unashamed of my chains.
- …for which I suffer to the extent of being chained like a criminal. But the word of God cannot be chained!
- At my first defense, no one stood with me, but everyone deserted me. May it not be charged against them.
- But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, so that through me the message would be fully proclaimed, and all the Gentiles would hear it. So I was delivered from the mouth of the lion.