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Acts 28:16

James Moffatt - New Testament

When we did reach Rome, Paul got permission to live by himself, with a soldier to guard him.

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Next day we put in at Sidon, where Julius very kindly allowed Paul to visit his friends and be looked after.

He gave orders to the officer to have Paul kept in custody but to allow him some freedom and not to prevent any of his own people from rendering him any service.

As for the woman you have seen, she is the great City which reigns over the kings of the earth."

Now for the interpretation of the discerning mind! The seven heads are seven hills, on which the woman is seated:

but as the officer wanted to save Paul, he put a stop to their plan, ordering those who could swim to jump overboard first and get to land,

when Paul said to the officer and the soldiers, "You cannot be saved unless these men stay by the ship."

On the following night the Lord stood by Paul and said, "Courage! As you have testified to me at Jerusalem, so you must testify at Rome."

After these events Paul resolved in the Spirit to travel through Macedonia and Achaia on his way to Jerusalem. "After I get there," he said, "I must also visit Rome."

There he came across a Jew called Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently arrived from Italy with his wife Priscilla, as Claudius had ordered all Jews to leave Rome. Paul accosted them,

in Phrygia and Pamphylia, in Egypt and the districts of Libya round Cyrene, visitors from Rome, Jews and proselytes,




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