5. However, he shook the creature off into the fire and suffered no harm.
6. They expected that he would swell up or suddenly drop dead. But after they waited a long time and saw nothing unusual happen to him, they changed their minds and said he was a god.
7. Now in the area around that place was an estate belonging to the leading man of the island, named Publius, who welcomed us and entertained us hospitably for three days.
8. Publius’s father was in bed suffering from fever and dysentery. Paul went to him, and praying and laying his hands on him, he healed him.
9. After this, the rest of those on the island who had diseases also came and were cured.
10. So they heaped many honors on us, and when we sailed, they gave us what we needed.
11. After three months we set sail in an Alexandrian ship that had wintered at the island, with the Twin Brothers as its figurehead.
12. Putting in at Syracuse, we stayed three days.
13. From there, after making a circuit along the coast, we reached Rhegium. After one day a south wind sprang up, and the second day we came to Puteoli.
14. There we found believers and were invited to stay with them for seven days.And so we came to Rome.
15. Now the believers from there had heard the news about us and had come to meet us as far as the Forum of Appius and the Three Taverns. When Paul saw them, he thanked God and took courage.
16. When we entered Rome, Paul was permitted to stay by himself with the soldier who guarded him.
17. 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 ancestors, I was delivered as a prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans.
18. After they examined me, they wanted to release me, since I had not committed a capital offense.