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Acts 28:11

Good News Translation

After three months we sailed away on a ship from Alexandria, called “The Twin Gods,” which had spent the winter in the island.

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The Lord says, “Come together, people of the nations, all who survive the fall of the empire; present yourselves for the trial! The people who parade with their idols of wood and pray to gods that cannot save them— those people know nothing at all!

This made the sailors so afraid of the Lord that they offered a sacrifice and promised to serve him.

The sailors were terrified and cried out for help, each one to his own god. Then, in order to lessen the danger, they threw the cargo overboard. Meanwhile, Jonah had gone below and was lying in the ship's hold, sound asleep.

They went all the way across the island to Paphos, where they met a certain magician named Bar-Jesus, a Jew who claimed to be a prophet.

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

They gave us many gifts, and when we sailed, they put on board what we needed for the voyage.

We arrived in the city of Syracuse and stayed there for three days.

But he was opposed by some men who were members of the synagogue of the Freedmen (as it was called), which had Jews from Cyrene and Alexandria. They and other Jews from the provinces of Cilicia and Asia started arguing with Stephen.

So then, about eating the food offered to idols: we know that an idol stands for something that does not really exist; we know that there is only the one God.




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