For in seven days I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and every living thing that I have made I will blot out from the face of the ground.”
Acts 28:14 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 There we found brothers and sisters and were invited to stay with them for seven days. And so we came to Rome. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 where we found brethren, and were desired to tarry with them seven days: and so we went toward Rome. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition There we found some [Christian] brethren and were entreated to stay with them for seven days. And so we came to Rome. American Standard Version (1901) where we found brethren, and were entreated to tarry with them seven days: and so we came to Rome. Common English Bible There we found brothers and sisters who urged us to stay with them for a week. In this way we came to Rome. Catholic Public Domain Version There, after locating the brothers, we were asked to remain with them for seven days. And then we went on to Rome. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Where, finding brethren, we were desired to tarry with them seven days: and so we went to Rome. |
For in seven days I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and every living thing that I have made I will blot out from the face of the ground.”
Whatever town or village you enter, find out who in it is worthy, and stay there until you leave.
So the rumor spread among the brothers and sisters that this disciple would not die. Yet Jesus did not say to him that he would not die, but, “If it is my will that he remain until I come, what is that to you?”
In those days Peter stood up among the brothers and sisters (together the crowd numbered about one hundred twenty persons) and said,
While Apollos was in Corinth, Paul passed through the interior regions and came to Ephesus, where he found some disciples.
but we sailed from Philippi after the days of Unleavened Bread, and in five days we joined them in Troas, where we stayed for seven days.
We looked up the disciples and stayed there for seven days. Through the Spirit they told Paul not to go on to Jerusalem.
then we weighed anchor and came to Rhegium. After one day there a south wind sprang up, and on the second day we came to Puteoli.
The brothers and sisters from there, when they heard of us, came as far as the Forum of Appius and Three Taverns to meet us. On seeing them, Paul thanked God and took courage.
They replied, “We have received no letters from Judea about you, and none of the brothers coming here has reported or spoken anything evil about you.
Therefore, brothers and sisters, select from among yourselves seven men of good standing, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, whom we may appoint to this task,
When the brothers and sisters learned of it, they brought him down to Caesarea and sent him off to Tarsus.
I do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, that I have often intended to come to you (but thus far have been prevented), in order that I may reap some harvest among you, as I have among the rest of the gentiles.