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who also honoured us with many gifts; and when we departed, they laded
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 the isle, whose ensign was Castor and Pollux.
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And landing at Syracuse, we tarried
there three days.
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And having gone around, we came to Rhegium, and after one day the south wind blew, and we came the next day to Puteoli,
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where we found brethren, who asked us to tarry with them seven days, and so we went toward Rome.
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And from there, when the brethren heard of us, they came to meet us as far as Appii Forum and The Three Taverns whom when Paul saw, he thanked God and took courage.
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And when we came to Rome, the centurion delivered the prisoners to the praetorian prefect, but Paul was allowed 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 principals of the Jews together, and when they were come together, he said unto them, Men
and brethren, though I have committed nothing against the people or customs of our fathers, 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 cause of death in me.
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But when the Jews spoke against
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 have called for you, to see
you and to speak with
you: because for the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain.