Bible Verses About Paul

wherefore I call upon you to take nourishment, for this is for your safety, for of not one of you shall a hair from the head fall;'

and having said these things, and having taken bread, he gave thanks to God before all, and having broken it , he began to eat;

and all having become of good cheer, themselves also took food,

(and we were--all the souls in the ship--two hundred, seventy and six),

and having eaten sufficient nourishment, they were lightening the ship, casting forth the wheat into the sea.

And when the day came, they were not discerning the land, but a certain creek were perceiving having a beach, into which they took counsel, if possible, to thrust forward the ship,

and the anchors having taken up, they were committing it to the sea, at the same time--having loosed the bands of the rudders, and having hoisted up the mainsail to the wind--they were making for the shore,

and having fallen into a place of two seas, they ran the ship aground, and the fore-part, indeed, having stuck fast, did remain immoveable, but the hinder-part was broken by the violence of the waves.

And the soldiers' counsel was that they should kill the prisoners, lest any one having swam out should escape,

but the centurion, wishing to save Paul, hindered them from the counsel, and did command those able to swim, having cast themselves out first--to get unto the land,

and the rest, some indeed upon boards, and some upon certain things of the ship; and thus it came to pass that all came safe unto the land.

And having been saved, then they knew that the island is called Melita,

and the foreigners were shewing us no ordinary kindness, for having kindled a fire, they received us all, because of the pressing rain, and because of the cold;

but Paul having gathered together a quantity of sticks, and having laid them upon the fire, a viper--out of the heat having come--did fasten on his hand.

And when the foreigners saw the beast hanging from his hand, they said unto one another, `Certainly this man is a murderer, whom, having been saved out of the sea, the justice did not suffer to live;'

he then, indeed, having shaken off the beast into the fire, suffered no evil,

and they were expecting him to be about to be inflamed, or to fall down suddenly dead, and they, expecting it a long time, and seeing nothing uncommon happening to him, changing their minds, said he was a god.

And in the neighbourhood of that place were lands of the principal man of the island, by name Publius, who, having received us, three days did courteously lodge us ;

and it came to pass, the father of Publius with feverish heats and dysentery pressed, was laid, unto whom Paul having entered, and having prayed, having laid his hands on him, healed him;

this, therefore, being done, the others also in the island having infirmities were coming and were healed;

who also with many honours did honour us, and we setting sail--they were lading us with the things that were necessary.

And after three months, we set sail in a ship (that had wintered in the isle) of Alexandria, with the sign Dioscuri,

and having landed at Syracuse, we remained three days,

thence having gone round, we came to Rhegium, and after one day, a south wind having sprung up, the second day we came to Puteoli;

where, having found brethren, we were called upon to remain with them seven days, and thus to Rome we came;