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Acts of the Apostles 4:27 (NLT)
“In fact, this has happened here in this very city! For Herod Antipas, Pontius Pilate the governor, the Gentiles, and the people of Israel were all united against Jesus, your holy servant, whom you anointed.
Acts of the Apostles 4:2 (NLT)
These leaders were very disturbed that Peter and John were teaching the people that through Jesus there is a resurrection of the dead.
Acts of the Apostles 4:20 (NLT)
We cannot stop telling about everything we have seen and heard.”
Acts of the Apostles 4:21 (NLT)
The council then threatened them further, but they finally let them go because they didn’t know how to punish them without starting a riot. For everyone was praising God
Acts of the Apostles 4:22 (NLT)
for this miraculous sign—the healing of a man who had been lame for more than forty years.
Acts of the Apostles 4:23 (NLT)
As soon as they were freed, Peter and John returned to the other believers and told them what the leading priests and elders had said.
Acts of the Apostles 4:24 (NLT)
When they heard the report, all the believers lifted their voices together in prayer to God: “O Sovereign Lord, Creator of heaven and earth, the sea, and everything in them—
Acts of the Apostles 4:25 (NLT)
you spoke long ago by the Holy Spirit through our ancestor David, your servant, saying, ‘Why were the nations so angry? Why did they waste their time with futile plans?
Acts of the Apostles 4:26 (NLT)
The kings of the earth prepared for battle; the rulers gathered together against the Lord and against his Messiah.’
Acts of the Apostles 4:28 (NLT)
But everything they did was determined beforehand according to your will.
Acts of the Apostles 4:29 (NLT)
And now, O Lord, hear their threats, and give us, your servants, great boldness in preaching your word.
Acts of the Apostles 27:1 (NLT)
When the time came, we set sail for Italy. Paul and several other prisoners were placed in the custody of a Roman officer named Julius, a captain of the Imperial Regiment.
Acts of the Apostles 27:2 (NLT)
Aristarchus, a Macedonian from Thessalonica, was also with us. We left on a ship whose home port was Adramyttium on the northwest coast of the province of Asia; it was scheduled to make several stops at ports along the coast of the province.
Acts of the Apostles 27:3 (NLT)
The next day when we docked at Sidon, Julius was very kind to Paul and let him go ashore to visit with friends so they could provide for his needs.
Acts of the Apostles 27:4 (NLT)
Putting out to sea from there, we encountered strong headwinds that made it difficult to keep the ship on course, so we sailed north of Cyprus between the island and the mainland.
Acts of the Apostles 27:5 (NLT)
Keeping to the open sea, we passed along the coast of Cilicia and Pamphylia, landing at Myra, in the province of Lycia.
Acts of the Apostles 27:6 (NLT)
There the commanding officer found an Egyptian ship from Alexandria that was bound for Italy, and he put us on board.
Acts of the Apostles 27:7 (NLT)
We had several days of slow sailing, and after great difficulty we finally neared Cnidus. But the wind was against us, so we sailed across to Crete and along the sheltered coast of the island, past the cape of Salmone.
Acts of the Apostles 27:8 (NLT)
We struggled along the coast with great difficulty and finally arrived at Fair Havens, near the town of Lasea.
Acts of the Apostles 27:9 (NLT)
We had lost a lot of time. The weather was becoming dangerous for sea travel because it was so late in the fall, and Paul spoke to the ship’s officers about it.
Acts of the Apostles 27:10 (NLT)
“Men,” he said, “I believe there is trouble ahead if we go on—shipwreck, loss of cargo, and danger to our lives as well.”
Acts of the Apostles 27:11 (NLT)
But the officer in charge of the prisoners listened more to the ship’s captain and the owner than to Paul.
Acts of the Apostles 27:12 (NLT)
And since Fair Havens was an exposed harbor—a poor place to spend the winter—most of the crew wanted to go on to Phoenix, farther up the coast of Crete, and spend the winter there. Phoenix was a good harbor with only a southwest and northwest exposure.
Acts of the Apostles 27:13 (NLT)
When a light wind began blowing from the south, the sailors thought they could make it. So they pulled up anchor and sailed close to the shore of Crete.
Acts of the Apostles 27:14 (NLT)
But the weather changed abruptly, and a wind of typhoon strength (called a “northeaster”) burst across the island and blew us out to sea.