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And after three months, we sailed in a ship of Alexandria, that had wintered in the island, whose sign was the Castors.
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And when we were come to Syracusa, we tarried there three days.
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From thence, compassing by the shore, we came to Rhegium: and after one day, the south wind blowing, we came the second day to Puteoli:
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Where, finding brethren, we were desired to tarry with them seven days. And so we went to Rome.
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And from thence, when the brethren had heard of us, they came to meet us as far as Appii Forum and the Three Taverns. Whom when Paul saw, he gave thanks to God and took courage.
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And when we were come to Rome, Paul was suffered to dwell by himself, with a soldier that kept him.
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And after the third day, he called together the chief of the Jews. And when they were assembled, he said to them: Men, brethren, I, having done nothing against the people or the custom of our fathers, was delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans.
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Who, when they had examined me, would have released me, for that there was no cause of death in me.
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But the Jews contradicting it, I was constrained to appeal unto Caesar: not that I had anything to accuse my nation of.
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For this cause therefore I desired to see you and to speak to you. Because that for the hope of Israel, I am bound with this chain.
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But they said to him: We neither received letters concerning thee from Judea: neither did any of the brethren that came hither relate or speak any evil of thee.