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Acts 27:1

Good News Translation (US Version)

When it was decided that we should sail to Italy, they handed Paul and some other prisoners over to Julius, an officer in the Roman army regiment called “The Emperor's Regiment.”

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But I could not find that he had done anything for which he deserved the death sentence. And since he himself made an appeal to the Emperor, I have decided to send him.

Then Festus, after conferring with his advisers, answered, “You have appealed to the Emperor, so to the Emperor you will go.”

There was a man in Caesarea named Cornelius, who was a captain in the Roman army regiment called “The Italian Regiment.”

But the army officer was convinced by what the captain and the owner of the ship said, and not by what Paul said.

There he met a Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, for Emperor Claudius had ordered all the Jews to leave Rome. Paul went to see them,

Give our greetings to all your leaders and to all God's people. The believers from Italy send you their greetings.

When we arrived in Rome, Paul was allowed to live by himself with a soldier guarding him.

But the army officer wanted to save Paul, so he stopped them from doing this. Instead, he ordered everyone who could swim to jump overboard first and swim ashore;

There the officer found a ship from Alexandria that was going to sail for Italy, so he put us aboard.

He ordered the officer in charge of Paul to keep him under guard, but to give him some freedom and allow his friends to provide for his needs.

Then Paul called one of the officers and said to him, “Take this young man to the commander; he has something to tell him.”

That night the Lord stood by Paul and said, “Don't be afraid! You have given your witness for me here in Jerusalem, and you must also do the same in Rome.”

When the officer heard this, he went to the commander and asked him, “What are you doing? That man is a Roman citizen!”

At once the commander took some officers and soldiers and rushed down to the crowd. When the people saw him with the soldiers, they stopped beating Paul.

After these things had happened, Paul made up his mind to travel through Macedonia and Achaia and go on to Jerusalem. “After I go there,” he said, “I must also see Rome.”

As soon as Paul had this vision, we got ready to leave for Macedonia, because we decided that God had called us to preach the Good News to the people there.

“Captain Cornelius sent us,” they answered. “He is a good man who worships God and is highly respected by all the Jewish people. An angel of God told him to invite you to his house, so that he could hear what you have to say.”

The army officer saw what had happened, and he praised God, saying, “Certainly he was a good man!”

A Roman officer there had a servant who was very dear to him; the man was sick and about to die.

When the army officer and the soldiers with him who were watching Jesus saw the earthquake and everything else that happened, they were terrified and said, “He really was the Son of God!”

He looks on the people of the earth as nothing; angels in heaven and people on earth are under his control. No one can oppose his will or question what he does.

And it is best to learn this patience in our youth.

People may plan all kinds of things, but the Lord's will is going to be done.

Human anger only results in more praise for you; those who survive the wars will keep your festivals.

But his plans endure forever; his purposes last eternally.

You plotted evil against me, but God turned it into good, in order to preserve the lives of many people who are alive today because of what happened.

When we were safely ashore, we learned that the island was called Malta.




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