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Acts 22:28and the chief captain answered, ‘I, with a great sum, did obtain this citizenship;’ but Paul said, ‘But I have been even born so.’Acts 22:29Immediately, therefore, they departed from him who are about to examine him, and the chief captain also was afraid, having learned that he is a Roman, and because he had bound him,Acts 22:30and on the morrow, intending to know the certainty wherefore he is accused by the Jews, he did loose him from the bonds, and commanded the chief priests and all their sanhedrim to come, and having brought down Paul, he set him before them.Acts 23:11And on the following night, the Lord having stood by him, said, ‘Take courage, Paul, for as thou didst fully testify the things concerning me at Jerusalem, so it behoveth thee also at Rome to testify.’Acts 23:12And day having come, certain of the Jews having made a concourse, did anathematize themselves, saying neither to eat nor to drink till they may kill Paul;Acts 23:13and they were more than forty who made this conspiracy by oath,Acts 23:14who having come near to the chief priests and to the elders said, ‘With an anathema we did anathematize ourselves—to taste nothing till we have killed Paul;Acts 23:15now, therefore, ye, signify ye to the chief captain, with the sanhedrim, that to-morrow he may bring him down unto you, as being about to know more exactly the things concerning him; and we, before his coming nigh, are ready to put him to death.’Acts 23:16And the son of Paul’s sister having heard of the lying in wait, having gone and entered into the castle, told Paul,Acts 23:17and Paul having called near one of the centurions, said, ‘This young man lead unto the chief captain, for he hath something to tell him.’Acts 23:18He indeed, then, having taken him, brought him unto the chief captain, and saith, ‘The prisoner Paul, having called me near, asked me this young man to bring unto thee, having something to say to thee.’Acts 23:19And the chief captain having taken him by the hand, and having withdrawn by themselves, inquired, ‘What is that which thou hast to tell me?’Acts 23:20and he said—‘The Jews agreed to request thee, that to-morrow to the sanhedrim thou mayest bring down Paul, as being about to enquire something more exactly concerning him;Acts 23:21thou, therefore, mayest thou not yield to them, for there lie in wait for him of them more than forty men, who did anathematize themselves—not to eat nor to drink till they kill him, and now they are ready, waiting for the promise from thee.’Acts 23:22The chief captain, then, indeed, let the young man go, having charged him to tell no one, ‘that these things thou didst shew unto me;’Acts 23:23and having called near a certain two of the centurions, he said, ‘Make ready soldiers two hundred, that they may go on unto Caesarea, and horsemen seventy, and spearmen two hundred, from the third hour of the night;Acts 23:24beasts also provide, that, having set Paul on, they may bring him safe unto Felix the governor;’Acts 23:25he having written a letter after this description:Acts 23:26‘Claudius Lysias, to the most noble governor Felix, hail:Acts 23:27This man having been taken by the Jews, and being about to be killed by them—having come with the soldiery, I rescued him, having learned that he is a Roman;Acts 23:28and, intending to know the cause for which they were accusing him, I brought him down to their sanhedrim,Acts 23:29whom I found accused concerning questions of their law, and having no accusation worthy of death or bonds;Acts 23:30and a plot having been intimated to me against this man—about to be of the Jews—at once I sent unto thee, having given command also to the accusers to say the things against him before thee; be strong.’Acts 23:31Then, indeed, the soldiers according to that directed them, having taken up Paul, brought him through the night to Antipatris,Acts 23:32and on the morrow, having suffered the horsemen to go on with him, they returned to the castle;Acts 23:33those having entered into Caesarea, and delivered the letter to the governor, did present also Paul to him.Acts 23:34And the governor having read it, and inquired of what province he is, and understood that he is from Cilicia;Acts 23:35‘I will hear thee—said he—when thine accusers also may have come;’ he also commanded him to be kept in the praetorium of Herod.Acts 26:14and we all having fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew dialect, Saul, Saul, why me dost thou persecute? hard for thee against pricks to kick!Acts 26:15‘And I said, Who art thou, Lord? and he said, I am Jesus whom thou dost persecute;Acts 26:16but rise, and stand upon thy feet, for for this I appeared to thee, to appoint thee an officer and a witness both of the things thou didst see, and of the things in which I will appear to thee,Acts 26:17delivering thee from the people, and the nations, to whom now I send thee,Acts 26:18to open their eyes, to turn them from darkness to light, and from the authority of the Adversary unto God, for their receiving forgiveness of sins, and a lot among those having been sanctified, by faith that is toward me.Acts 28:1And having been saved, then they knew that the island is called Melita,Acts 28:2and the foreigners were shewing us no ordinary kindness, for having kindled a fire, they received us all, because of the pressing rain, and because of the cold;Acts 28:3but Paul having gathered together a quantity of sticks, and having laid them upon the fire, a viper—out of the heat having come—did fasten on his hand.Acts 28:4And when the foreigners saw the beast hanging from his hand, they said unto one another, ‘Certainly this man is a murderer, whom, having been saved out of the sea, the justice did not suffer to live;’Acts 28:5he then, indeed, having shaken off the beast into the fire, suffered no evil,Acts 28:6and they were expecting him to be about to be inflamed, or to fall down suddenly dead, and they, expecting it a long time, and seeing nothing uncommon happening to him, changing their minds, said he was a god.Acts 28:7And in the neighbourhood of that place were lands of the principal man of the island, by name Publius, who, having received us, three days did courteously lodge us;Acts 28:8and it came to pass, the father of Publius with feverish heats and dysentery pressed, was laid, unto whom Paul having entered, and having prayed, having laid his hands on him, healed him;Acts 28:9this, therefore, being done, the others also in the island having infirmities were coming and were healed;Acts 28:10who also with many honours did honour us, and we setting sail—they were lading us with the things that were necessary.Romans 1:1Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, a called apostle, having been separated to the good news of God—Romans 1:14Both to Greeks and to foreigners, both to wise and to thoughtless, I am a debtor,Romans 1:15so, as much as in me is, I am ready also to you who are in Rome to proclaim good news,Romans 2:19and hast confidence that thou thyself art a leader of blind ones, a light of those in darkness,Romans 2:20an instructor of foolish ones, a teacher of babes, having the form of the knowledge and of the truth in the law.Romans 2:21Thou, then, who art teaching another, thyself dost thou not teach?Romans 2:22thou who art preaching not to steal, dost thou steal? thou who art saying not to commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou who art abhorring the idols, dost thou rob temples?Romans 2:23thou who in the law dost boast, through the transgression of the law God dost thou dishonour?Romans 2:24for the name of God because of you is evil spoken of among the nations, according as it hath been written.Romans 2:25For circumcision, indeed, doth profit, if law thou mayest practise, but if a transgressor of law thou mayest be, thy circumcision hath become uncircumcision.Romans 10:14How then shall they call upon him in whom they did not believe? and how shall they believe on him of whom they did not hear? and how shall they hear apart from one preaching?Romans 10:15and how shall they preach, if they may not be sent? according as it hath been written, ‘How beautiful the feet of those proclaiming good tidings of peace, of those proclaiming good tidings of the good things!’Romans 12:3For I say, through the grace that was given to me, to every one who is among you, not to think above what it behoveth to think; but to think so as to think wisely, as to each God did deal a measure of faith,Romans 12:4for as in one body we have many members, and all the members have not the same office,Romans 12:5so we, the many, one body are in Christ, and members each one of one another.Romans 12:6And having gifts, different according to the grace that was given to us; whether prophecy—‘According to the proportion of faith!’Romans 12:7or ministration—‘In the ministration!’ or he who is teaching—‘In the teaching!’