The New English Bible; Acts 21-24

it's been a hit the acts of the apostles chapter twenty one that's twenty seven from jerusalem to rome but just before the period of seven days without the jews from the province of asia saw him in the temple they stirred up the whole crowd and seized him shouting man of israel help help this is the fellow who spreads is doctrine all over the world at taking our people our will end this century on top of all this he has brought greeks into the tempo and profaned this holy place foley had previously seen draw for most the fijian with him in the city and assumed the poll that brought him into the temple the whole city was in a turmoil and

people came running from all directions bases port and dragged him out of the temple and that once the doors were shot why they were clamoring for these days a report reach the officer commanding the court that all jerusalem was in an uproar he immediately took a force of soldiers with us and joins and came down on the rioters at the double as soon as they saw the commander and his troops they stopped beating pull the command didn't step forward and arrested him and ordered him to be shackled with two chains he then asked who the man was and what he had been doing some in the current show did one thing some another as he could not get at the truth because of the hubble he ordered him to be taken in the box when paul reach the states he had to be carried by the soldiers

because of the violence of the mall for the wardrobe where that that he use yelling kill him just before corps was taken into the box he said to the combined and may i say something to you're a commander and said so you speak greek do you they knew about the egyptian who started the report sometime ago and made a force of four thousand terrorists out into the wilds paul replied i want you at tassi and from sunni share a citizen of no means city i ask your permission to speak to the people of permission had been given paul stood on the steps and with a gesture call for the attention of the people as soon as quiet was restored he addressed them in the

jewish language brothers and fathers give me it again while i make my defense before you when they had been speaking to them in their own language and they listened the more quietly i am a true born jew he said a native of classes since alicia i was brought up in the city and as a pupil of camille you i was thoroughly trained in every point of our ancestral i've always been out of tin god service as your life to date and so i began to persecute this moment to the death of arresting its followers men and women alike and putting them in chains for this i have as witnesses the high priest and all council of elders i was given letters from them to our fellow jews at the mosque us and that started out to bring the christians there to jerusalem as prisoners for punishment

and this is what happened i was on the road and nearing damascus when suddenly about midday and create light flash from the sky all around me and i fell to the ground and then i had a voice saying to me so why do you persecute me i answered tell me lord who you are i am jesus of nazareth he said who you are persecuting my companions saw the light but did not hear the voice that spoke to make what shall i do laundry i said amble or provide it up and continue your journey to damascus then you will be towed of all the tasks that only deport you as i had been blinded by the brilliance of that light my companions led me by the hand and so i came to damascus there a man called them and

i was a devoted observer of a mole and well spoken of bio the jews of that place came and stood beside me and said so my brother recover your site instantly i recovered my side and saw him he went on the god of our fathers appointed you to know his widow and to see the righteous one and to hear his very voice because you want to be his witness before the world and testify to what you have seen and had and know why delay be baptized at once with the location of his name and war issue at your sins asked about returned to jerusalem i was praying in the tempo when i fell into a trance and so in their speaking to me they taste he said i believe jerusalem without delay or they will not accept your testimony about me lord i said they know that i in prison those who

believe in the end for alderman every synagogue and when the black dusty from eyewitness was shame i stood by approving and i look after the close of those who killed him but he said to me go what i'm sending you find a way to the gentiles up to this point they had given him my hearing but no they began shouting down with him must struggle like that is better did and as they were yelling and waving their hopes of winning dust in the air the commander ordered him to be brought into the box and gave instructions to examine him by flogging and find out what reason that was for such an outcry against him but when they tied him up from the latch bolt said to the century and who was standing there can you legally for old man who is a roman citizen

and moreover has not been found guilty when the centurion have this he went and reported it to the command what you need to do he said this man is a roman citizen a commander gave to blow to make a you a roman citizen he asked is city the commander replied it cost me a large sum to acquire citizenship but it was mined by birth then those who were about to examine it would dilute hastily and the combined and himself was alarmed when he realized the poll was a roman citizen and that he had built in environments the following day we seem to be quite sure what charge that jews were bringing against paul he released him and ordered the chief priests of the entire cultural to assemble he then

to pull down and stood him before the pork fixed his eyes on the council and said my brothers i have lived or my life and still live today with a perfectly clear conscience before god at this that i present a nice ordered his attendance despite him on the mouth full retard did god will strike do to white wash or you sit at the judge be in accordance with the law and then in defiance of a lull you ordered me to be struck the attendance in which you insult guards high priest my brother's support i had no idea that he was high priest scripts and i know says you must not abuse the ruler of your people the poor was well aware of that one section of the

law said the season the other pharmacies so he poured out in the cold so my brothers i am a fantasy assigned a seat warm and braid and the true issue in this trial is our hope of the resurrection of the dead at these words the fire season said disease fellow to among themselves and the assembly was divided said to seize deny that that is an intersection or a jew or spit it but the fighters seize accept them so a great uproar broken and some of the doctors of the law belonging to the fat is a tough day openly took sides and declared we can find no fault with this man that's a manger or spirited spoken to him the decision was monte and the commander was afraid the poor would be torn to pieces so you won't have the troops to put down all of the crowed and bring him into the bot apps

the following night the lord appeared to him and said keep up your courage you have affirmed the truth about me in jerusalem and you must do the same hero when day broke the jews banded together and took a boat not to eat or drink until they had to call there were more than forty in this conspiracy they came to the chief priests and others and said we have about ourselves by a solemn oath not to taste food and do we have to pull it is no for you acting with the council to apply to the congo to bring him down to you on the pretext of our close an investigation of this case and we have our brains to do away with him before he had ideas but the son of poor sister head of the ambush he went to the barracks

old didi entry and reported it to pull paul corps one of this and joins and said take this young man to the command and he has something to report essentially and took him and brought him to the combined and the prisoner poorly said said for me and asked me to bring this young man to you he has something to tell you to command the broken by the arm through the site and asked him what is it you have to report he said the jews have made a plan among themselves and will regress to to brain paul down to the council tomorrow on the pretext of all digging more precise information about him do not listen to them for a party more than forty storm are lying in wait for him they have sworn not to eat or drink until they have done away with him they are now ready and wait only for your concern so the commander dismissed a young man with orders not to let anyone

know that he had given him this information then he called a couple of essential hymns and issued these orders get ready two hundred infantry to proceed to says amir together with seventeen cameramen and two hundred light armed troops but made three hours after sunset provide or so months for paul so the mayor aid through and to see if this court to felix the governor and he wrote a letter to this affect our dearest miss the us to his excellent say the governor felix you're excellent say this man was seized by the jews and was on the point of being monitored what i intervened with the troops and removed him because i discovered that he was a roman citizen as i wish to ascertain the charge on which they were accusing him i took him down to that counsel i found but the accusation that to do with

controversial matters in them all but there was no charge against an editing death or imprisonment however i have now been informed of an attempt to be made on the man's life so i am sending him to you at once and have also instructed his accusers to state their case against him before you acting on their orders the infantry to follow and brought him by night two am to purchase next day they returned to them about arts leaving the cavalry to escort of the rest of the way the cavalry entered says syria delivered the letter to the governor and handed ball over to him he read the letter i asked him what province he was from an american but he was from submissions i would hear your case he said when your accusers arrived he then ordered him to be held in custody

at his headquarters inherits palace five days later the high priest added i ask him down accompanied by some of the elders and an advocate named to tell us and they lead and information against pole before the government when the prisoner was called to tell us open the case you excellent say he said we owe it to you that we enjoy a broken piece it is due to your prophet of care but in all kinds of ways and in all sorts of places improvements are being made for the good of this province we welcome this set was gratefully though not to take up too much of your time i crave your indulgence for a brief statement of our case we have found this man to be a perfect taste awful bitter of discord among the jews all over

the one honoring leader of the sick of the basil leaves he even made an attempt to profane the temple and then we arrested him if you examine in yourself you can ascertain from him the truth that war the time as we bring the juice supported the attack on aging that the facts where as he stated then the government motioned to port to speak and he began his reply knowing as i do that for many years you have administered justice in this province i make my defense with confidence you can ascertain the facts for yourself is not more than twelve days since i went up to jerusalem on a pilgrimage they did not find me i'm doing with anyone or correcting a crowd even in the temple or in the synagogues are up and down pacific and they cannot make good the charges they bring against me but this much is i will admit i am a formal of the new

way this eight they speak low and it is in that manner that i worship the god of our fathers when i believe all that is written in the morgue the profits and a reliance on god i hold the hope which my accuses to accept but that is to be on his own action of good and we kinda like accordingly i know less than they trained myself to keep at all times a clear conscience before god and man after an absence of several years i came to bring charitable gifts to my mission and to offer sacrifices they found me and the tempo ritually purified and engaged in the service i know crow would make and there was an old disturbance but some juice from the province of asia where that and if they added a judge against me it is they you want to a beaded court to state a theory that it is for these buses here

president to say what a crying they discovered when i was brought before the council apart from this wide open a session which i made as i stood there the two issue in my trial before you today is that as an election of the dead then felix who happened to be where informed about cristobal adjourned the hearing whatley cs the commanding officer comes down he said i will go into your case he gave orders to the century and people are under arrest and not to prevent any of these friends from making themselves useful to him some days later felix came with his wife priscilla who wasn't us and sending folklore he let him talk to him about faith in christ jesus but when the discourse turned to questions of mourners self control and the coming

judgment felix became alarmed and exclaimed that will do for the president when i find it convenient i will stand for you again at the same time he had hopes of a bribe from paul and for this reason he said fought in the very often been built with him when two years the boston phoenix was succeeded but bossie assistance wishing to curry favor with the jews felix who if poor in custody the listener has concluded that the year twenty seventh they're so the twenty fourth chapter of the acts of the apostles the

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