TOPICAL BIBLE
Paul
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Acts 26:9“I myself most certainly thought that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.Acts 26:10This I also did in Jerusalem. I both shut up many of the saints in prisons, having received authority from the chief priests, and when they were put to death I gave my vote against them.Acts 26:11Punishing them often in all the synagogues, I tried to make them blaspheme. Being exceedingly enraged against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities.Acts 26:12“Whereupon as I traveled to Damascus with the authority and commission from the chief priests,Acts 26:13at noon, O king, I saw on the way a light from the sky, brighter than the sun, shining around me and those who traveled with me.Acts 26:14When we had all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice saying to me in the Hebrew language, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.’Acts 26:15“I said, ‘Who are you, Lord?’ “He said, ‘I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.Acts 26:16But arise, and stand on your feet, for I have appeared to you for this purpose: to appoint you a servant and a witness both of the things which you have seen, and of the things which I will reveal to you;Acts 26:17delivering you from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom I send you,Acts 26:18to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’Acts 27:1When it was determined that we should sail for Italy, they delivered Paul and certain other prisoners to a centurion named Julius, of the Augustan band.Acts 27:2Embarking in a ship of Adramyttium, which was about to sail to places on the coast of Asia, we put to sea; Aristarchus, a Macedonian of Thessalonica, being with us.Acts 27:3The next day, we touched at Sidon. Julius treated Paul kindly, and gave him permission to go to his friends and refresh himself.Acts 27:4Putting to sea from there, we sailed under the lee of Cyprus, because the winds were contrary.Acts 27:5When we had sailed across the sea which is off Cilicia and Pamphylia, we came to Myra, a city of Lycia.Acts 27:6There the centurion found a ship of Alexandria sailing for Italy, and he put us on board.Acts 27:7When we had sailed slowly many days, and had come with difficulty opposite Cnidus, the wind not allowing us further, we sailed under the lee of Crete, opposite Salmone.Acts 27:8With difficulty sailing along it we came to a certain place called Fair Havens, near the city of Lasea.Acts 27:9When much time had passed and the voyage was now dangerous, because the Fast had now already gone by, Paul admonished them,Acts 27:10and said to them, “Sirs, I perceive that the voyage will be with injury and much loss, not only of the cargo and the ship, but also of our lives.”Acts 27:11But the centurion gave more heed to the master and to the owner of the ship than to those things which were spoken by Paul.Acts 27:12Because the haven was not suitable to winter in, the majority advised going to sea from there, if by any means they could reach Phoenix, and winter there, which is a port of Crete, looking northeast and southeast.Acts 27:13When the south wind blew softly, supposing that they had obtained their purpose, they weighed anchor and sailed along Crete, close to shore.Acts 27:14But before long, a stormy wind beat down from shore, which is called Euroclydon.Acts 27:15When the ship was caught, and couldn’t face the wind, we gave way to it, and were driven along.Acts 27:16Running under the lee of a small island called Clauda, we were able, with difficulty, to secure the boat.Acts 27:17After they had hoisted it up, they used cables to help reinforce the ship. Fearing that they would run aground on the Syrtis sand bars, they lowered the sea anchor, and so were driven along.Acts 27:18As we labored exceedingly with the storm, the next day they began to throw things overboard.Acts 27:19On the third day, they threw out the ship’s tackle with their own hands.Acts 27:20When neither sun nor stars shone on us for many days, and no small storm pressed on us, all hope that we would be saved was now taken away.Acts 27:21When they had been long without food, Paul stood up in the middle of them, and said, “Sirs, you should have listened to me, and not have set sail from Crete, and have gotten this injury and loss.Acts 27:22Now I exhort you to cheer up, for there will be no loss of life among you, but only of the ship.Acts 27:23For there stood by me this night an angel, belonging to the God whose I am and whom I serve,Acts 27:24saying, ‘Don’t be afraid, Paul. You must stand before Caesar. Behold, God has granted you all those who sail with you.’Acts 27:25Therefore, sirs, cheer up! For I believe God, that it will be just as it has been spoken to me.Acts 27:26But we must run aground on a certain island.”Acts 27:27But when the fourteenth night had come, as we were driven back and forth in the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the sailors surmised that they were drawing near to some land.Acts 27:28They took soundings, and found twenty fathoms. After a little while, they took soundings again, and found fifteen fathoms.Acts 27:29Fearing that we would run aground on rocky ground, they let go four anchors from the stern, and wished for daylight.Acts 27:30As the sailors were trying to flee out of the ship, and had lowered the boat into the sea, pretending that they would lay out anchors from the bow,Acts 27:31Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, “Unless these stay in the ship, you can’t be saved.”Acts 27:32Then the soldiers cut away the ropes of the boat, and let it fall off.Acts 27:33While the day was coming on, Paul begged them all to take some food, saying, “This day is the fourteenth day that you wait and continue fasting, having taken nothing.Acts 27:34Therefore I beg you to take some food, for this is for your safety; for not a hair will perish from any of your heads.”Acts 27:35When he had said this, and had taken bread, he gave thanks to God in the presence of all, and he broke it, and began to eat.Acts 27:36Then they all cheered up, and they also took food.Acts 27:37In all, we were two hundred seventy-six souls on the ship.Acts 27:38When they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, throwing out the wheat into the sea.Acts 27:39When it was day, they didn’t recognize the land, but they noticed a certain bay with a beach, and they decided to try to drive the ship onto it.Acts 27:40Casting off the anchors, they left them in the sea, at the same time untying the rudder ropes. Hoisting up the foresail to the wind, they made for the beach.Acts 27:41But coming to a place where two seas met, they ran the vessel aground. The bow struck and remained immovable, but the stern began to break up by the violence of the waves.Acts 27:42The soldiers’ counsel was to kill the prisoners, so that none of them would swim out and escape.Acts 27:43But the centurion, desiring to save Paul, stopped them from their purpose, and commanded that those who could swim should throw themselves overboard first to go toward the land;Acts 27:44and the rest should follow, some on planks, and some on other things from the ship. So it happened that they all escaped safely to the land.Acts 28:1When we had escaped, then they learned that the island was called Malta.Acts 28:2The natives showed us uncommon kindness; for they kindled a fire, and received us all, because of the present rain, and because of the cold.Acts 28:3But when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks and laid them on the fire, a viper came out because of the heat, and fastened on his hand.Acts 28:4When the natives saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said one to another, “No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he has escaped from the sea, yet Justice has not allowed to live.”Acts 28:5However he shook off the creature into the fire, and wasn’t harmed.Acts 28:6But they expected that he would have swollen or fallen down dead suddenly, but when they watched for a long time and saw nothing bad happen to him, they changed their minds, and said that he was a god.