20. For this reason therefore I have called for you, to see you and speak with you, because for the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain.”
21. Then they said to him, “We neither received letters from Judea concerning you, nor have any of the brethren who came reported or spoken any evil of you.
22. But we desire to hear from you what you think; for concerning this sect, we know that it is spoken against everywhere.”
23. So when they had appointed him a day, many came to him at his lodging, to whom he explained and solemnly testified of the kingdom of God, persuading them concerning Jesus from both the Law of Moses and the Prophets, from morning till evening.
24. And some were persuaded by the things which were spoken, and some disbelieved.
25. So when they did not agree among themselves, they departed after Paul had said one word: “The Holy Spirit spoke rightly through Isaiah the prophet to our fathers,
26. saying,‘Go to this people and say:“Hearing you will hear, and shall not understand;And seeing you will see, and not perceive;