They replied, "We have had no letters about you from Judaea, and no brother has come here with any bad report or story about you.
as the high priest and all the council of elders can testify. It was from them that I got letters to the brotherhood at Damascus, and then journeyed thither to bind those who had gathered there and bring them back to Jerusalem for punishment.
Now I know, brothers, that you acted in ignorance, like your rulers —
where we came across some of the brotherhood, who invited us to stay a week with them. In this way we reached Rome.
I could have wished myself accursed and banished from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my natural kinsmen;