‘Come, gather together, and approach, you fugitives of the nations. Those who carry their wooden idols and pray to a god who cannot save have no knowledge.
Acts 28:11 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised After three months we set sail in an Alexandrian ship that had wintered at the island, with the Twin Gods as its figurehead. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And after three months we departed in a ship of Alexandria, which had wintered in the isle, whose sign was Castor and Pollux. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition It was after three months' stay there that we set sail in a ship which had wintered in the island, an Alexandrian ship with the Twin Brothers [Castor and Pollux] as its figurehead. American Standard Version (1901) And after three months we set sail in a ship of Alexandria which had wintered in the island, whose sign was The Twin Brothers. Common English Bible After three months we put out to sea in a ship that had spent the winter at the island. It was an Alexandrian ship with carvings of the twin gods Castor and Pollux as its figurehead. Catholic Public Domain Version And so, after three months, we sailed in a ship from Alexandria, whose name was 'the Castors,' and which had wintered at the island. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And after three months, we sailed in a ship of Alexandria, that had wintered in the island, whose sign was the Castors. |
‘Come, gather together, and approach, you fugitives of the nations. Those who carry their wooden idols and pray to a god who cannot save have no knowledge.
The men were seized by great fear of the Lord, and they offered a sacrifice to the Lord and made vows.
The sailors were afraid, and each cried out to his god. They threw the ship’s cargo into the sea to lighten the load. Meanwhile, Jonah had gone down to the lowest part of the vessel and had stretched out and fallen into a deep sleep.
When they had travelled the whole island as far as Paphos, they came across a sorcerer, a Jewish false prophet named Bar-Jesus.
There the centurion found an Alexandrian ship sailing for Italy and put us aboard.
So they heaped many honours on us, and when we sailed, they gave us what we needed.
Opposition arose, however, from some members of the Freedmen’s Synagogue, composed of both Cyrenians and Alexandrians, and some from Cilicia and Asia, and they began to argue with Stephen.
About eating food sacrificed to idols, then, we know that ‘an idol is nothing in the world’, and that ‘there is no God but one’.