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Acts 10:1

The Passion Translation

At that time there was a Roman military officer, Cornelius, who was in charge of one hundred men stationed in Caesarea. He was the captain of the Italian regiment,

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Then the guards took him into their military compound, where a detachment of nearly six hundred soldiers surrounded him.

Now, when the Roman military officer and his soldiers witnessed what was happening and felt the powerful earthquake, they were extremely terrified. They said, “There is no doubt, this man was the Son of God!”

The soldiers took Jesus into the headquarters of the governor’s compound and summoned a military unit of nearly six hundred men.

A Roman military captain there had a beloved servant whom he valued highly, and who was sick to the point of death. When the captain heard that Jesus was in the city, he sent some respected Jewish elders to plead with him to come and heal his dying servant.

Then the soldiers and their captain, along with the Jewish officers, seized Jesus and tied him up.

The Pharisees and the leading priests had given Judas a large detachment of Roman soldiers and temple police to seize Jesus. Judas guided them to the garden, all of them carrying torches and lanterns and armed with swords and spears.

The next day they arrived in Caesarea, where Cornelius was waiting anxiously for them and had gathered together all of his relatives and close friends.

But as they were about to kill Paul, the news reached the commander of the Roman garrison that the entire city was in an uproar.

Then we went on to Caesarea and stayed for several days in the home of Philip the evangelist, who was one of the seven deacons and

When the soldiers stretched Paul out with ropes, he said to the captain, who was standing nearby, “Is it legal for you to torture a Roman citizen like this, without a proper trial?”

Then he summoned two of his captains and said to them, “I want you to take Paul by horseback to Caesarea tonight at nine o’clock. Dispatch two hundred infantrymen, seventy horsemen, and another two hundred spearmen to provide security and deliver him safely to Governor Felix.”

Upon their arrival in Caesarea, they presented the letter to the governor and brought Paul before him.

Three days after Festus assumed his duties in Caesarea, he made the journey to Jerusalem.

Several days later, King Agrippa and Bernice arrived at Caesarea for a visit with Festus.

When it was decided that we were to sail for Italy, Festus handed over Paul and a number of other prisoners to the custody of a Roman officer named Julius, a member of the imperial guard.

Paul said to the Roman officer and his soldiers, “Unless you all stay together onboard the ship, you have no chance of surviving.”

But the Roman officer was determined to bring Paul safely through, so he foiled their attempts. He commanded the prisoners and crew who could swim to jump overboard and swim ashore.




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