Ashore on Malta 1 TNT And when they were scaped then they knewe that the yle was called Milete. BSB BSB: Once we were safely ashore, we learned that the island was called Malta.
2 TNT And the people of the countre shewed vs no lytell kyndnes: for they kyndled a fyre and receaved vs every one because of the present rayne and because of colde. BSB BSB: The islanders showed us extraordinary kindness. They kindled a fire and welcomed all of us because it was raining and cold.
3 TNT And when Paul had gaddered a boundle of stickes and put them into the fyre ther came a viper out of the heet and lept on his honde. BSB BSB: Paul gathered a bundle of sticks, and as he laid them on the fire, a viper, driven out by the heat, fastened itself to his hand.
4 TNT When the men of the contre sawe the worme hange on his honde they sayde amonge the selves: this man must nedes be a mortherer. Whome (though he have escaped the see) yet vengeaunce suffreth not to lyve. BSB BSB: When the islanders saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, “Surely this man is a murderer. Although he was saved from the sea, Justice has not allowed him to live.”
5 TNT But he shouke of the vermen into the fyre and felt no harme. BSB BSB: But Paul shook the creature off into the fire and suffered no ill effects.
6 TNT Howbeit they wayted when he shuld have swolne or fallen doune deed sodenly. But after they had loked a greate whyle and sawe no harme come to him they chaunged their myndes and sayde that he was a God. BSB BSB: The islanders were expecting him to swell up or suddenly drop dead. But after waiting a long time and seeing nothing unusual happen to him, they changed their minds and said he was a god.
7 TNT In the same quarters the chefe man of the yle whose name was Publius had a lordshippe: the same receaved vs and lodged vs thre dayes courteously. BSB BSB: Nearby stood an estate belonging to Publius, the chief official of the island. He welcomed us and entertained us hospitably for three days.
8 TNT And it fortuned that the father of Publius laye sicke of a fiever and of a bluddy flixe. To who Paul entred in and prayde and layde his hondes on him and healed him. BSB BSB: The father of Publius was sick in bed, suffering from fever and dysentery. Paul went in to see him, and after praying and placing his hands on him, he healed the man.
9 TNT When this was done other also which had diseases in the yle came and were healed. BSB BSB: After this had happened, the rest of the sick on the island came and were cured as well.
10 TNT And they dyd vs gret honoure. And when we departed they laded vs with thinges necessary. BSB BSB: The islanders honored us in many ways and supplied our needs when we were ready to sail.
Paul Arrives in Italy 11 TNT After thre monethes we departed in a ship of Alexandry which had wyntred in the yle whose badge was Castor and Pollux. BSB BSB: After three months we set sail in an Alexandrian ship that had wintered in the island. It had the Twin Brothers as a figurehead.
12 TNT And when we came to Cyracusa we taryed there .iii. dayes. BSB BSB: Putting in at Syracuse, we stayed there three days.
13 TNT And from thence we set a compasse and came to Regium. And after one daye the south wynde blewe and we came the next daye to Putiolus: BSB BSB: From there we weighed anchor and came to Rhegium. After one day, a south wind came up, and on the second day we arrived at Puteoli.
14 TNT where we founde brethren and were desyred to tary with them seven dayes and so came to Rome. BSB BSB: There we found some brothers who invited us to spend the week with them. And so we came to Rome.
15 TNT And from thence when the brethren hearde of vs they came agaynst vs to Apiphorum and to the thre taverns. When Paul sawe the he thanked God and wexed bolde. BSB BSB: The brothers there had heard about us and traveled as far as the Forum of Appius and the Three Taverns to meet us. When Paul saw them, he was encouraged and gave thanks to God.
Paul Preaches at Rome (Isaiah 6:1–13)
17 TNT And it fortuned after thre dayes that Paul called the chefe of the Iewes together. And when they were come he sayde vnto the: Men and brethren though I have committed nothinge agaynst the people or lawes of oure fathers: yet was I delyvered presoner from Ierusalem in to the hondes of the Romayns. BSB BSB: After three days, he called together the leaders of the Jews. When they had gathered, he said to them, “Brothers, although I have done nothing against our people or the customs of our fathers, I was taken prisoner in Jerusalem and handed over to the Romans.
18 TNT Which when they had examined me wolde have let me goo because they founde no cause of deeth in me. BSB BSB: They examined me and wanted to release me, because there was no basis for a death sentence against me.
19 TNT But when the Iewes cryed contrary I was constrayned to appeale vnto Cesar: not because I had ought to accuse my people of. BSB BSB: But when the Jews objected, I was compelled to appeal to Caesar, even though I have no charge to bring against my nation.
20 TNT For this cause have I called for you even to se you and to speake with you: because that for the hope of Israel I am bounde with this chayne. BSB BSB: So for this reason I have called to see you and speak with you. It is because of the hope of Israel that I am bound with this chain.”
21 TNT And they sayde vnto him: We nether receaved letters out of Iewry pertayninge vnto the nether came eny of the brethren that shewed or spake eny harme of the. BSB BSB: The leaders replied, “We have not received any letters about you from Judea, nor have any of the brothers from there reported or even mentioned anything bad about you.
22 TNT But we will heare of the what thou thynkest. For we have hearde of this secte that every wheare it is spoken agaynst. BSB BSB: But we consider your views worth hearing, because we know that people everywhere are speaking against this sect.”
23 TNT And when they had apoynted him a daye ther came many vnto him into his lodgynge. To whom he expounded and testifyed the kyngdome of God and preached vnto the of Iesu: both out of the lawe of Moses and also out of the prophetes even from mornynge to nyght. BSB BSB: So they set a day to meet with Paul, and many people came to the place he was staying. He expounded to them from morning to evening, testifying about the kingdom of God and persuading them about Jesus from the Law of Moses and the Prophets.
24 TNT And some beleved the thinges which were spoken and some beleved not. BSB BSB: Some of them were convinced by what he said, but others refused to believe.
25 TNT When they agreed not amonge the selves they departed after that Paul had spoken one worde. Well spake the holy goost by Esay the prophet vnto oure fathers BSB BSB: They disagreed among themselves and began to leave after Paul had made this final statement: “The Holy Spirit was right when He spoke to your fathers through Isaiah the prophet:
26 TNT sayinge: Goo vnto this people and saye: with youre eares shall ye heare and shall not vnderstonde: and with youre eyes shall ye se and shall not perceave. BSB BSB: ‘Go to this people and say, “You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.”
27 TNT For the hert of this people is wexed grosse and their eares were thycke of hearynge and their eyes have they closed: lest they shuld se with their eyes and heare with their eares and vnderstonde with their hertes and shuld be converted and I shulde heale them. BSB BSB: For this people’s heart has grown callous; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn, and I would heal them.’
28 TNT Be it knowen therfore vnto you that this salvacion of God is sent to the gentyls and they shall heare it. BSB BSB: Be advised, therefore, that God’s salvation has been sent to the Gentiles, and they will listen!”
29 TNT And when he had sayde that the Iewes departed and had grete despicions amonge them selves. BSB BSB: Not in the BSB
31 TNT preachyng the kyngdome of God and teachynge those thinges which concerned the lorde Iesus with all confidence vnforboden. BSB BSB: Boldly and freely he proclaimed the kingdom of God and taught about the Lord Jesus Christ.
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