Acts 28:1-6
THE JOURNEY FROM MELITA TO ROME. Paul again in peril:... [ Continue Reading ]
THE JOURNEY FROM MELITA TO ROME. Paul again in peril:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN THEY WERE ESCAPED, THEN THEY KNEW THAT THE ISLAND WAS CALLED MELITA.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE BARBAROUS PEOPLE SHOWED US NO LITTLE KINDNESS; FOR THEY KINDLED A FIRE, AND RECEIVED US, EVERY ONE, BECAUSE OF THE PRESENT RAIN AND BECAUSE OF THE COLD.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN PAUL HAD GATHERED A BUNDLE OF STICKS, AND LAID THEM ON THE FIRE, THERE CAME A VIPER OUT OF THE HEAT, AND FASTENED ON HIS HAND.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN THE BARBARIANS SAW THE VENOMOUS BEAST HANG ON HIS HAND, THEY SAID AMONG THEMSELVES, NO DOUBT THIS MAN IS A MURDERER, WHOM, THOUGH HE HATH ESCAPED THE SEA, YET VENGEANCE SUFFERETH NOT TO LIVE.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE SHOOK OFF THE BEAST INTO THE FIRE, AND FELT NO HARM.... [ Continue Reading ]
HOWBEIT, THEY LOOKED WHEN HE SHOULD HAVE SWOLLEN, OR FALLEN DOWN DEAD SUDDENLY; BUT AFTER THEY HAD LOOKED A GREAT WHILE AND SAW NO HARM COME TO HIM, THEY CHANGED THEIR MINDS, AND SAID THAT HE WAS A GOD. When the people on the wrecked vessel had reached the land in safety, then only did they find out... [ Continue Reading ]
IN THE SAME QUARTERS WERE POSSESSIONS OF THE CHIEF MAN OF THE ISLAND. WHOSE NAME WAS PUBLIUS; WHO RECEIVED US, AND LODGED US THREE DAYS COURTEOUSLY.... [ Continue Reading ]
The healing of the father of Publius:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND IT CAME TO PASS THAT THE FATHER OF PUBLIUS LAY SICK OF A FEVER AND OF A BLOODY FLUX; TO WHOM PAUL ENTERED IN, AND PRAYED, AND LAID HIS HANDS ON HIM, AND HEALED HIM.... [ Continue Reading ]
SO WHEN THIS WAS DONE. OTHERS ALSO WHICH HAD DISEASES IN THE ISLAND CAME AND WERE HEALED;... [ Continue Reading ]
WHO ALSO HONORED US WITH MANY HONORS, AND WHEN WE DEPARTED, THEY LADED US WITH SUCH THINGS AS WERE NECESSARY. In the same quarters, in the neighborhood of the place which is now known as St. Paul's Bay, the Roman ruler of the island, whose title was the chief, or first man, as an ancient inscription... [ Continue Reading ]
AND AFTER THREE MONTHS WE DEPARTED IN A SHIP OF ALEXANDRIA, WHICH HAD WINTERED IN THE ISLE, WHOSE SIGN WAS CASTOR AND POLLUX.... [ Continue Reading ]
From Melita to Rome:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND LANDING AT SYRACUSE, WE TARRIED THERE THREE DAYS.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND FROM THENCE WE FETCHED A COMPASS AND CAME TO RHEGIUM; AND AFTER ONE DAY THE SOUTH WIND BLEW, AND WE CAME THE NEXT DAY TO PUTEOLI;... [ Continue Reading ]
WHERE WE FOUND BRETHREN, AND WERE DESIRED TO TARRY WITH THEM SEVEN DAYS; AND SO WE WENT TOWARD ROME.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND FROM THENCE, WHEN THE BRETHREN HEARD OF US, THEY CAME TO MEET US AS FAR AS APPII FORUM AND THE THREE TAVERNS; WHOM WHEN PAUL SAW, HE THANKED GOD AND TOOK COURAGE.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN WE CAME TO ROME, THE CENTURION DELIVERED THE PRISONERS TO THE CAPTAIN OF THE GUARD; BUT PAUL WAS SUFFERED TO DWELL BY HIMSELF WITH A SOLDIER THAT KEPT HIM. The stay at Melita was made as short as possible, since Julius was anxious to deliver his prisoners to the imperial court. After three... [ Continue Reading ]
AND IT CAME TO PASS THAT AFTER THREE DAYS PAUL CALLED THE CHIEF OF THE JEWS TOGETHER; AND WHEN THEY WERE COME TOGETHER, HE SAID UNTO THEM, MEN AND BRETHREN, THOUGH I HAVE COMMITTED NOTHING AGAINST THE PEOPLE OR CUSTOMS OF OUR FATHERS, YET WAS I DELIVERED PRISONER FROM JERUSALEM INTO THE HANDS OF THE... [ Continue Reading ]
TWO YEARS AT ROME. Paul calls the Jews together:... [ Continue Reading ]
WHO, WHEN THEY HAD EXAMINED ME, WOULD HAVE LET ME GO, BECAUSE THERE WAS NO CAUSE OF DEATH IN ME.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT WHEN THE JEWS SPAKE AGAINST IT, I WAS CONSTRAINED TO APPEAL UNTO CAESAR; NOT THAT I HAD AUGHT TO ACCUSE MY NATION OF.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THIS CAUSE, THEREFORE, HAVE I CALLED FOR YOU, TO SEE YOU AND TO SPEAK WITH YOU, BECAUSE THAT FOR THE HOPE OF ISRAEL I AM BOUND WITH THIS CHAIN. There was a flourishing congregation in Rome at this time, and Paul could well have devoted his entire time to the believers already gathered. But, as i... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY SAID UNTO HIM, WE NEITHER RECEIVED LETTERS OUT OF JUDEA CONCERNING THEE, NEITHER ANY OF THE BRETHREN THAT CAME SHOWED OR SPAKE ANY HARM OF THEE.... [ Continue Reading ]
Paul testifies of the kingdom of God:... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT WE DESIRE TO HEAR OF THEE WHAT THOU THINKEST; FOR AS CONCERNING THIS SECT, WE KNOW THAT EVERYWHERE IT IS SPOKEN AGAINST.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN THEY HAD APPOINTED HIM A DAY, THERE CAME MANY TO HIM INTO HIS LODGING; TO WHOM HE EXPOUNDED AND TESTIFIED THE KINGDOM OF GOD, PERSUADING THEM CONCERNING JESUS, BOTH OUT OF THE LAW OF MOSES AND OUT OF THE PROPHETS FROM MORNING TILL EVENING.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND SOME BELIEVED THE THINGS WHICH WERE SPOKEN, AND SOME BELIEVED NOT. When Paul had made his appeal for a square deal at their hands, the Jews frankly told him that they had received neither any written nor verbal communications which were unfavorable to him personally; letters they had not receive... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN THEY AGREED NOT AMONG THEMSELVES, THEY DEPARTED AFTER THAT PAUL HAD SPOKEN ONE WORD, WELL SPAKE THE HOLY GHOST BY ESAIAS THE PROPHET UNTO OUR FATHERS,... [ Continue Reading ]
A word from Isaiah applied:... [ Continue Reading ]
SAYING, GO UNTO THIS PEOPLE AND SAY, HEARING YE SHALL HEAR AND SHALL NOT UNDERSTAND, AND SEEING YE SHALL SEE AND NOT PERCEIVE;... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THE HEART OF THIS PEOPLE IS WAXED GROSS, AND THEIR EARS ARE DULL OF HEARING, AND THEIR EYES HAVE THEY CLOSED, LEST THEY SHOULD SEE WITH THEIR EYES, AND HEAR WITH THEIR EARS, AND UNDERSTAND WITH THEIR HEART, AND SHOULD BE CONVERTED, AND I SHOULD HEAL THEM.... [ Continue Reading ]
BE IT KNOWN, THEREFORE, UNTO YOU THAT THE SALVATION OF GOD IS SENT UNTO THE GENTILES, AND THAT THEY WILL HEAR IT.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN HE HAD SAID THESE WORDS, THE JEWS DEPARTED, AND HAD GREAT REASONING AMONG THEMSELVES. It was at this point in the discussion, when some were being persuaded by Paul's words, yielding to the conviction of God's Word, and others continued in their disbelief, and when they could not come to an... [ Continue Reading ]
AND PAUL DWELT TWO WHOLE YEARS IN HIS OWN HIRED HOUSE, AND RECEIVED ALL THAT CAME IN UNTO HIM,... [ Continue Reading ]
Two years at Rome: SUMMARY._ The journey from Melita to Rome is completed without mishap, and Paul takes the opportunity in the capital to speak to the Jews and afterward, to many others, preaching to them the kingdom of God and their Savior Jesus Christ._ A SUMMARY OF THE LATTER PART OF PAUL'S L... [ Continue Reading ]
PREACHING THE KINGDOM OF GOD, AND TEACHING THOSE THINGS WHICH CONCERN THE LORD JESUS CHRIST WITH ALL CONFIDENCE, NO MAN FORBIDDING HIM. Paul may, at this time, have been able to purchase many conveniences for himself, or the liberality of the various congregations made it possible; at any rate, he w... [ Continue Reading ]