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take them along and purify yourself together with them, and pay their expenses so that they may shave their heads; and then everyone will know that there is nothing to what they have been told about you, but that you yourself also conform, keeping the Law.

the commander ordered that he be brought into the barracks, saying that he was to be interrogated by flogging so that he would find out the reason why they were shouting against him that way.

But on the following night, the Lord stood near him and said, "Be courageous! For as you have testified to the truth about Me in Jerusalem, so you must testify in Rome also."

So he took him and led him to the commander and said, "Paul the prisoner called me over to him and asked me to bring this young man to you because he has something to tell you."

"So do not listen to them, for more than forty of them are in hiding to ambush him, and these men have put themselves under an oath not to eat or drink until they kill him; and now they are ready and waiting for assurance from you."

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

"And he even tried to desecrate the temple, so indeed we arrested him.

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 that the man be brought.

So, on the next day when Agrippa and Bernice came 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 before them.

"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 way of life since my youth, which from the beginning was spent among my own nation and in Jerusalem,

"So I thought to myself that I had to act in strong opposition 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 power 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, 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 harbor was not suitable for wintering, so the majority reached a decision to put out to sea from there, if somehow they could reach Phoenix, a harbor of Crete facing southwest and northwest, and spend the winter there.

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

and the rest were to 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;