Acts 23:27

The Lord said to him, “Arise, and go to the street which is called Straight, and inquire in the house of Judah for one named Saul, a man of Tarsus. For behold, he is praying,

Immediately he took soldiers and centurions and ran down to them. They, when they saw the chief captain and the soldiers, stopped beating Paul.

“I am indeed a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, instructed according to the strict tradition of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God, even as you all are today.

and will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn away to fables.

But they insisted, saying, “He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee even to this place.”

But some of those who were of the synagogue called “The Libertines”, and of the Cyrenians, of the Alexandrians, and of those of Cilicia and Asia arose, disputing with Stephen.

Some shouted one thing, and some another, among the crowd. When he couldn’t find out the truth because of the noise, he commanded him to be brought into the barracks.

and said to the judges, “Consider what you do, for you don’t judge for man, but for Yahweh; and he is with you in the judgment.

lest they tear apart my soul like a lion, ripping it in pieces, while there is no one to deliver.

“Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you into pieces, and there be no one to deliver.

Their poison is like the poison of a snake, like a deaf cobra that stops its ear,

For, behold, your enemies are stirred up. Those who hate you have lifted up their heads.

Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he will also cry out, but shall not be heard.

Rescue those who are being led away to death! Indeed, hold back those who are staggering to the slaughter!

What do you mean that you crush my people, and grind the face of the poor?” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.

But the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah, so that they didn’t give him into the hand of the people to put him to death.

who also eat the flesh of my people, and peel their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as meat within the cauldron.

But they refused to listen, and turned their backs, and stopped their ears, that they might not hear.

for this people’s heart has grown callous, their ears are dull of hearing, they have closed their eyes; or else perhaps they might perceive with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and would turn again; and I would heal them.’

Then Pilate said to him, “Don’t you hear how many things they testify against you?”

But the governor said, “Why? What evil has he done?” But they cried out exceedingly, saying, “Let him be crucified!”

A certain centurion’s servant, who was dear to him, was sick and at the point of death.

Therefore they took up stones to throw at him, but Jesus was hidden, and went out of the temple, having gone through the middle of them, and so passed by.

So the detachment, the commanding officer, and the officers of the Jews seized Jesus and bound him,

Pilate therefore said to them, “Take him yourselves, and judge him according to your law.” Therefore the Jews said to him, “It is illegal for us to put anyone to death,”

So Pilate then took Jesus, and flogged him.

He said to them, “You men of Israel, be careful concerning these men, what you are about to do.

They agreed with him. Summoning the apostles, they beat them and commanded them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.

Now when they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed at him with their teeth.

But they cried out with a loud voice and stopped their ears, then rushed at him with one accord.

When the brothers knew it, they brought him down to Caesarea, and sent him off to Tarsus.

Barnabas went out to Tarsus to look for Saul.

They wrote these things by their hand: “The apostles, the elders, and the brothers, to the brothers who are of the Gentiles in Antioch, Syria, and Cilicia: greetings.

He went through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the assemblies.

But Paul said to them, “They have beaten us publicly without a trial, men who are Romans, and have cast us into prison! Do they now release us secretly? No, most certainly, but let them come themselves and bring us out!”

Then all the Greeks seized Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgment seat. Gallio didn’t care about any of these things.

When Paul wanted to enter in to the people, the disciples didn’t allow him.

For you have brought these men here, who are neither robbers of temples nor blasphemers of your goddess.

As they were trying to kill him, news came up to the commanding officer of the regiment that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.

As Paul was about to be brought into the barracks, he asked the commanding officer, “May I speak to you?” He said, “Do you know Greek?

But Paul said, “I am a Jew, from Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no insignificant city. I beg you, allow me to speak to the people.”

I said, ‘Lord, they themselves know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue those who believed in you.

the commanding officer commanded him to be brought into the barracks, ordering him to be examined by scourging, that he might know for what crime they shouted against him like that.

When the centurion heard it, he went to the commanding officer and told him, “Watch what you are about to do, for this man is a Roman!”

Immediately those who were about to examine him departed from him, and the commanding officer also was afraid when he realized that he was a Roman, because he had bound him.

When a great argument arose, the commanding officer, fearing that Paul would be torn in pieces by them, commanded the soldiers to go down and take him by force from among them, and bring him into the barracks.

But Paul’s sister’s son heard they were lying in wait, and he came and entered into the barracks and told Paul.

Paul summoned one of the centurions, and said, “Bring this young man to the commanding officer, for he has something to tell him.”

But on the next day they left the horsemen to go with him, and returned to the barracks.

When the governor had read it, he asked what province he was from. When he understood that he was from Cilicia, he said,

He even tried to profane the temple, and we arrested him.

In the temple they didn’t find me disputing with anyone or stirring up a crowd, either in the synagogues, or in the city.

But Felix, having more exact knowledge concerning the Way, deferred them, saying, “When Lysias, the commanding officer, comes down, I will decide your case.”

while he said in his defense, “Neither against the law of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar, have I sinned at all.”

When it was determined that we should sail for Italy, they delivered Paul and certain other prisoners to a centurion named Julius, of the Augustan band.

When we had sailed across the sea which is off Cilicia and Pamphylia, we came to Myra, a city of Lycia.

But the centurion, desiring to save Paul, stopped them from their purpose, and commanded that those who could swim should throw themselves overboard first to go toward the land;

that I may be delivered from those who are disobedient in Judea, and that my service which I have for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints,

in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;

Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I suffered shipwreck. I have been a night and a day in the deep.

I have been in travels often, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from my countrymen, perils from the Gentiles, perils in the city, perils in the wilderness, perils in the sea, perils among false brothers;

Then I came to the regions of Syria and Cilicia.

persecutions, and sufferings: those things that happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. I endured those persecutions. The Lord delivered me out of them all.

Women received their dead by resurrection. Others were tortured, not accepting their deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection.

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts. Always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear,

Now the centurion, and those who were with him watching Jesus, when they saw the earthquake, and the things that were done, feared exceedingly, saying, “Truly this was the Son of God.”

As they cried out, threw off their cloaks, and threw dust into the air,