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For you shall be a witness for him to all men of what you have seen and heard.

And he said to me, Depart: for I will send you forth far from here to the Gentiles.

And they gave him audience to this word; and they lifted up their voice, and said, Away with such a fellow from the earth: for it is not fit that he should live.

the colonel commanded him to be brought into the castle, bidding that he should be examined by scourging, that he might know for what cause they so shouted against him.

And when they had tied him up with the thongs, Paul said to the captain that stood by, Is it lawful for you to scourge a man that is a Roman, and uncondemned?

And when the captain heard it, he went to the colonel and told him, saying, What are you about to do? for this man is a Roman.

And Paul said, I didn't know, brothers, that he was high priest: for it is written, You shall not speak evil of a ruler of your people.

For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, neither angel, nor spirit; but the Pharisees confess both.

And the night following the Lord stood by him, and said, Be of good cheer: for as you have testified concerning me at Jerusalem, so must you bear witness also at Rome.

And Paul called to him one of the captains, and said, Bring this young man to the colonel; for he has something to tell him.

You, therefore, should not yield to them: for there lie in wait for him of them more than forty men, who have bound themselves under a curse, neither to eat nor to drink until they have slain him: and now they are ready, looking for the promise from you.

And when he was called, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying, Seeing that by you we enjoy much peace, and that by the providence evils are corrected for this nation,

For we have found this man a pestilent fellow, and a mover of insurrections among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes:

having hope toward God, which these also themselves look for, that there shall be a resurrection both of the just and unjust.

except it is for this one voice, that I cried standing among them, Concerning the resurrection of the dead I am called in question before you this day.

But after certain days, Felix came with Drusilla, his wife, who was Jewish, and sent for Paul, and heard him concerning the faith in Christ Jesus.

And as he reasoned of righteousness, and self-control, and the judgment to come, Felix was terrified, and answered, Go your way for this time; and when I have a convenient season, I will call you to me.

He hoped as well that money would be given him of Paul: therefore also he sent for him the more often, and communed with him.

asking a favor against him, that he would send for him to Jerusalem; laying a plot to kill him on the way.

about whom, when I was at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews informed [me], asking for sentence against him.