Study Desk

Now he was very angry with the people of Tyre and Sidon; and with one accord they came to him, and having won over Blastus the king's chamberlain, they were asking for peace, because their country was fed by the king's country.

And immediately an angel of the Lord struck him because he did not give God the glory, and he was eaten by worms and breathed his last.

And they began calling Barnabas, Zeus, and Paul, Hermes, because he was the chief speaker.

And when they had read it, they rejoiced because of its encouragement.

Paul wanted this man to go with him, and he took him and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those parts, for they all knew that his father was a Greek.

And he brought them into his house and set food before them, and rejoiced greatly with his whole household, because he had believed in God.

And also some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers were conversing with him. Some were saying, "What would this idle babbler wish to say?" Others, "He seems to be a proclaimer of strange deities,"—because he was proclaiming the good news of Jesus and the resurrection.

because He has fixed a day in which He will judge the world in righteousness through a Man whom He determined, having furnished proof to all by raising Him from the dead."

And he found a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, and his wife Priscilla, who recently came from Italy because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to depart from Rome. He came to them,

and because he was of the same trade, he was staying with them and they were working, for by trade they were tent-makers.

But among the crowd some were shouting one thing and some another, and when he could not find out the facts because of the uproar, he ordered him to be brought into the barracks.

And when he got to the stairs, he actually was carried by the soldiers because of the violence of the crowd;

But since I could not see because of the glory of that light, being led by the hand by those who were with me, I came into Damascus.

and I saw Him saying to me, ‘Hurry and get out of Jerusalem quickly, because they will not accept your witness about Me.'

Therefore those who were about to examine him immediately withdrew from him; and the commander also was afraid when he learned that he was a Roman, and because he had bound him.

And as a great dissension was developing, because the commander was afraid Paul would be torn to pieces by them, he ordered the troops to go down and take him away from them by force, and bring him into the barracks.

And after Paul had been summoned, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying, "As we have attained much peace through you—and because by your provision reforms are being carried out for this nation—

especially because you are an expert in all customs and questions among the Jews; therefore I beg you to listen to me patiently.

And from there we set sail and sailed under the shelter of Cyprus because the winds were against us.

And because the harbor was not suitable for wintering, the majority reached a decision to set sail from there, if somehow they could arrive at Phoenix, a harbor of Crete facing southwest and northwest, to spend the winter there.