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So the soldiers, in accordance with their orders, took Paul and brought him by night to Antipatris.

The Jews also joined in the attack, asserting that these things were so.

"So after they had assembled here, I did not delay, but on the next day took my seat on the tribunal and ordered the man to be brought before me.

So, on the next day when Agrippa came together with Bernice amid great pomp, and entered the auditorium accompanied by the commanders and the prominent men of the city, at the command of Festus, Paul was brought in.

"Yet I have nothing definite about him to write to my lord. Therefore I have brought him before you all and especially before you, King Agrippa, so that after the investigation has taken place, I may have something to write.

"So then, all Jews know my manner of life from my youth up, which from the beginning was spent among my own nation and at Jerusalem;

"So then, I thought to myself that I had to do many things hostile to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.

"While so engaged as I was journeying to Damascus with the authority and commission of the chief priests,

to open their eyes so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the dominion of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who have been sanctified by faith in Me.'

"So, King Agrippa, I did not prove disobedient to the heavenly vision,

"So, having obtained help from God, I stand to this day testifying both to small and great, stating nothing but what the Prophets and Moses said was going to take place;

The soldiers' plan was to kill the prisoners, so that none of them would swim away and escape;

and the rest should follow, some on planks, and others on various things from the ship. And so it happened that they all were brought safely to land.

For I long to see you so that I may impart some spiritual gift to you, that you may be established;

I do not want you to be unaware, brethren, that often I have planned to come to you (and have been prevented so far) so that I may obtain some fruit among you also, even as among the rest of the Gentiles.

So, for my part, I am eager to preach the gospel to you also who are in Rome.

For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse.

Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them.

So if the uncircumcised man keeps the requirements of the Law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision?

Now we know that whatever the Law says, it speaks to those who are under the Law, so that every mouth may be closed and all the world may become accountable to God;