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Chapter 28 And when they were escaped,
then they knew that the island was called

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Melita.

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And the barbarous people showed us no
little kindness, for they kindled a fire,

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and received us every one, because of the
present rain and because of the cold.

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And when Paul had gathered a bundle of
sticks and laid them on the fire,

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there came a viper out of the heap and
fastened on his hand.

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And when the barbarians saw the venomous
beast hang on his hand, they said among

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themselves, No doubt this man is a
murderer, whom though he hath escaped the

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sea, yet vengeance suffereth not to live.

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And he shook off the beast into the fire,
and felt no harm.

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Howbeit they looked when he should have
swollen or fallen down dead suddenly.

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But after they had looked a great while,
and saw no harm come to him, they changed

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their minds, and said that he was a god.

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In the same quarters were possessions of
the chief man of the island, whose name

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was Publius, who received us, and lodged
us three days courteously.

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And it came to pass, that the father of
Publius lay sick of a fever and of a

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bloody flux, to whom Paul entered in,
and prayed, and laid his hands on him,

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and healed him.

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So when this was done, others also,
which had diseases in the island,

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came, and were healed, who also honored us
with many honors, and when we departed,

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they laided us with such things as were
necessary.

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And after three months we departed in a
ship of Alexandria, which had wintered in

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the isle, whose sign was Castor and
Pollux.

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And landing at Syracuse, we tarried there
three days.

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And from thence we fetched a compass,
and came to Regium, and after one day the

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south wind blew, and we came the next day
to Putili, where we found brethren,

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and were desired to tarry with them seven
days.

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And so we went toward Rome.

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And from thence, when the brethren heard
of us, they came to meet us as far as

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Appii Forum, and the three taverns,
whom when Paul saw, he thanked God,

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and took courage.

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And when we came to Rome, the centurion
delivered the prisoners to the captain of

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the guard, but Paul was suffered to dwell
by himself with a soldier that kept him.

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And it came to pass, that after three
days, Paul called the chief of the Jews

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together, and when they were come
together, he said unto them, Brethren,

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though I have committed nothing against
the people or customs of our fathers,

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yet was I delivered prisoner from
Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans,

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who, when they had examined me,
would have let me go, because there was no

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cause of death in me.

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But when the Jews spake against it,
I was constrained to appeal unto Caesar,

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not that I had ought to accuse my nation
of.

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For this cause, therefore, have I called
for you, to see you, and to speak with

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you, because that for the hope of Israel I
am bound with this chain.

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And they said unto him, We neither
received letters out of Judea concerning

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thee, neither any of the brethren that
came showed or spake any harm of thee,

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but we desire to hear of thee what thou
thinkest.

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For as concerning this sect, we know that
everywhere it is spoken against.

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And when they had appointed him a day,
there came many to him into his lodging,

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to whom he expounded and testified the
kingdom of God, persuading them concerning

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Jesus, both out of the law of Moses and
out of the prophets, from morning till

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evening.

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And some believed the things which were
spoken, and some believed not.

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And when they agreed not among themselves,
they departed, after that Paul had spoken

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one word.

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Well spake the Holy Ghost by Isaiah the
prophet unto our fathers, saying,

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Go unto this people, and say, Hearing ye
shall hear, and shall not understand,

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and seeing ye shall see, and not perceive.

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For the heart of this people is waxed
gross, and their ears are dull of hearing,

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and their eyes have they closed,
lest they should see with their eyes,

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and hear with their ears, and understand
with their heart, and should be converted,

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and I should heal them.

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Be it known therefore unto you,
that the salvation of God is sent unto the

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Gentiles, and that they will hear it.

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And when he had said these words,
the Jews departed, and had great reasoning

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among themselves.

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And Paul dwelt two whole years in his own
hired house, and received all that came in

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unto him, preaching the kingdom of God,
and teaching those things which concern

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the Lord Jesus Christ with all confidence,
no man forbidding him.

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This ends Disc 9.