Atos 28

¹ And when they were scaped then they knewe that the yle was called Milete.

² 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.

³ 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.

⁴ 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.

⁵ But he shouke of the vermen into the fyre and felt no harme.

⁶ 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.

⁷ 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.

⁸ 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.

⁹ When this was done other also which had diseases in the yle came and were healed.

¹⁰ And they dyd vs gret honoure. And when we departed they laded vs with thinges necessary.

¹¹ After thre monethes we departed in a ship of Alexandry which had wyntred in the yle whose badge was Castor and Pollux.

¹² And whe we came to Cyracusa we taryed there .iii. dayes.

¹³ 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:

¹⁴ where we founde brethren and were desyred to tary with them seven dayes and so came to Rome.

¹⁵ And from thence when ye brethren hearde of vs they came agaynst vs to Apiphorum and to ye thre taverns. When Paul sawe the he thanked God and wexed bolde.

¹⁶ And when he came to Rome ye vnder captayne delyvered ye presoners to ye chefe captayne of ye host: but Paul was suffered to dwell by him selfe with one soudier that kept him.

¹⁷ And it fortuned after thre dayes that Paul called ye chefe of ye Iewes together. And whe they were come he sayde vnto the: Men and brethren though I have comitted nothinge agaynst the people or lawes of oure fathers: yet was I delyvered presoner from Ierusalem in to the hondes of ye Romayns.

¹⁸ Which when they had examined me wolde have let me goo because they founde no cause of deeth in me.

¹⁹ But when ye Iewes cryed cotrary I was constrayned to appeale vnto Cesar: not because I had ought to accuse my people of.

²⁰ For this cause have I called for you eve to se you and to speake with you: because that for the hope of Israel I am bounde with this chayne.

²¹ And they sayde vnto him: We nether receaved letters out of Iewry pertayninge vnto ye nether came eny of the brethren that shewed or spake eny harme of the.

²² But we will heare of the what thou thynkest. For we have hearde of this secte that every wheare it is spoken agaynst.

²³ 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.

²⁴ And some beleved ye thinges which were spoken and some beleved not.

²⁵ When they agreed not amonge the selves they departed after that Paul had spoken one worde. Well spake the holy goost by Esay ye prophet vnto oure fathers

²⁶ 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.

²⁷ 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.

²⁸ Be it knowen therfore vnto you that this salvacion of God is sent to the gentyls and they shall heare it.

²⁹ And when he had sayde that the Iewes departed and had grete despicios amonge them selves.

³⁰ And Paul dwelt two yeares full in his lodgynge and receaved all that came to him

³¹ preachyng the kyngdome of God and teachynge those thinges which concerned the lorde Iesus with all confidence vnforboden.