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Acts 28:11

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

After three months we set sail in an Alexandrian ship that had wintered at the island, with the Twin Gods  as its figurehead.

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


About eating food sacrificed to idols, then, we know that ‘an idol is nothing in the world’,  and that ‘there is no God but one’.


‘Come, gather together, and approach, you fugitives of the nations. Those who carry their wooden idols and pray to a god who cannot save have no knowledge.


Opposition arose, however, from some members of the Freedmen’s Synagogue, composed of both Cyrenians and Alexandrians, and some from Cilicia and Asia, and they began to argue with Stephen.


The men were seized by great fear of the Lord,  and they offered a sacrifice to the Lord and made vows.


The sailors were afraid, and each cried out to his god.  They threw the ship’s cargo into the sea to lighten the load.  Meanwhile, Jonah had gone down to the lowest part of the vessel and had stretched out and fallen into a deep sleep.


When they had travelled the whole island as far as Paphos, they came across a sorcerer, a Jewish false prophet named Bar-Jesus.


So they heaped many honours on us, and when we sailed, they gave us what we needed.


Putting in at Syracuse, we stayed for three days.





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