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Acts 27:1

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

When it was decided that we were to sail to Italy, they handed over Paul and some other prisoners to a centurion named Julius, of the Imperial Regiment.  ,

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I found that he had not done anything deserving of death, but when he himself appealed to the Emperor, I decided to send him.


Then after Festus conferred with his council, he replied, ‘You have appealed to Caesar; to Caesar you will go.’


There was a man in Caesarea named Cornelius, a centurion of what was called the Italian Regiment.


But the centurion paid attention to the captain and the owner of the ship rather than to what Paul said.


where he found a Jew named Aquila,  a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla because Claudius had ordered all the Jews to leave Rome. Paul came to them,


Greet all your leaders and all the saints. Those who are from Italy send you greetings.


When we entered Rome,  Paul was allowed to live by himself with the soldier who guarded him.


But the centurion kept them from carrying out their plan because he wanted to save Paul, and so he ordered those who could swim to jump overboard first and get to land.


There the centurion found an Alexandrian ship sailing for Italy and put us aboard.


He ordered that the centurion keep Paul under guard, though he could have some freedom, and that he should not prevent any of his friends from meeting  his needs.


Paul called one of the centurions and said, ‘Take this young man to the commander, because he has something to report to him.’


The following night, the Lord stood by him and said, ‘Have courage! For as you have testified about me in Jerusalem, so it is necessary for you to testify in Rome.’


When the centurion heard this, he went and reported to the commander, saying, ‘What are you going to do? For this man is a Roman citizen.’


Taking along soldiers and centurions, he immediately ran down to them. Seeing the commander and the soldiers, they stopped beating Paul.


After these events, Paul resolved by the Spirit  to pass through Macedonia and Achaia and go to Jerusalem. ‘After I’ve been there,’ he said, ‘it is necessary for me to see Rome as well.’


After  he had seen the vision, we immediately made efforts to set out for Macedonia, concluding that God had called us to preach the gospel to them.


They said, ‘Cornelius, a centurion, an upright and God-fearing man, who has a good reputation with the whole Jewish nation, was divinely instructed by a holy angel to call you to his house and to hear a message from you.’


When the centurion saw what happened, he began to glorify  God, saying, ‘This man really was righteous! ’


A centurion’s servant, who was highly valued by him, was ill and about to die.


When the centurion and those with him, who were keeping watch over Jesus, saw the earthquake and the things that had happened, they were terrified and said, ‘Truly this man was the Son of God! ’


All the inhabitants of the earth are counted as nothing, and he does what he wants  with the army of heaven and the inhabitants of the earth. There is no one who can block his hand or say to him, ‘What have you done? ’


It is good for a man to bear the yoke while he is still young.


Many plans are in a person’s heart, but the  Lord’s decree will prevail.


You planned evil against me; God planned it for good to bring about the present result #– #the survival of many people.


Once safely ashore, we  then learned that the island was called Malta.





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